The Dying of the LightFrom the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous Southern debutante who marries for money and ultimately suffers for lovea southern gothic as written by Dominick Dunne. It begins with a house and ends in ashes . . . Diana Cooke was \"born with the century\" and came of age just after World War I. The daughter of Virginia gentry, she knew early that her parents had only one asset, besides her famous

In this powerful and thought-provoking book

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award-winning author of The Sparrow

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