Every time I attempted to go through my notes or write that blasted essay, I would very quickly give up and grab Savage Grace. It's a crazy (but true) story about, as the book's header reads, "Fatal relations in a rich and famous American family". I know, totally up my alley! The story centres around one branch of the Baekeland family- of Bakelite plastics fame- and the "relations" are truly fatal. A collection of memoirs of relatives and close friends of Brooks, Barbara and Antony Baekeland, Savage Grace weaves together the tale of the self-destructing family as they idly flit about from Paris to New York to Mallorca, and every European and American destination in between.
Savage Grace is a fantastic read. It's tough to get through (I actually gasped aloud at some points), and truly heartwrenching. To sum it up, Savage Grace is absolutely devastating. READ IT!!
Oh yeah, the film is now on DVD...trust I'll watch it ummm...tomorrow.
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