by Dominick Dunne · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416213894
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The Bradleys, a wealthy and powerful American family of Irish descent, know how to silence any scandal that could tarnish their reputation. Their implacable patriarch, Gerald Bradley, is determined that his favorite son, Constant, will one day be president of the United States. One summer night, after a dance at the country club, a young woman is murdered and Constant becomes the prime suspect in the crime. Twenty-two years later, the famous writer Harrison Burns, Constant's former schoolmate and old friend of the family, is determined to confess what he knows. Will the truth finally come to light? A Season in Purgatory is a fast-paced novel about the ability of privileged classes to influence, whose control over the various springs of power allows them to mold the truth at will.
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.
