by Dominick Dunne · Crown · tapa dura · ISBN 9780517583869
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«A Season in Purgatory» is Dominick Dunne's mystery novel, published by Crown in hardback (377 pages, in English).
Harrison Burns meets the Bradleys, a Catholic family of great wealth and influence, through his boarding-school friend Constant Bradley. Fascinated at first by their power, he discovers the clan has covered up the murder of a young woman. Harrison dismantles the facade of wealth and secrets, torn between loyalty and truth.
First edition 1993, published by Crown Publishers in New York. Part of the text previously appeared in Vanity Fair.
For readers of mystery novels and contemporary fiction interested in power and the secrets of high society.
Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the drama film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, an actress who had her breakthrough role in the film Poltergeist that year, he began to write about the interaction of wealth and high society with the judicial system. Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and, beginning in the 1980s, often appeared on television discussing crime.
