Most Popular Books by Dominick Dunne

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thoroughly absorbing” (Time) novel of love, rage, and ruin amidst the chaos in Los Angeles during the O.J. Simpson trial “Compulsively readable . . . deliciously wicked.”—Vogue Gus Bailey, journalist to high society, knows the sordid secrets of the very rich. Now he turns his penetrating gaze to a courtroom in Los Angeles, witnessing the trial of the century unfold before his startled eyes. By day, Gus is at the courthouse, the confidant of the Goldman and Simpson families, the lawyers, the journalists, the hangers-on, even the judge; at night he is the honored guest at the most dazzling gatherings in town as the movers and shakers of Los Angeles—from Kirk Douglas to Heidi Fleiss, from Elizabeth Taylor to Nancy Reagan—delight in the latest news from the corridors of the courthouse. As they share their own theories of the crime, Bailey bears witness to the ultimate perversion of principle and the most amazing gossip machine in Hollywood. A vivid, revealing achievement, Another City, Not My Own illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence in America today.

Mesmerizing, revelatory text combines with more than two hundred photographs -- most of them taken by the author -- in a startling illustrated memoir that will both astonish and move you. When Dominick Dunne lived and worked in Hollywood, he had it all: a beautiful family, a glamorous career, and the friendship of the talented and powerful. He also had a camera and loved to take pictures. These photographs, which Dunne carefully preserved in more than a dozen leatherbound scrapbooks -- along with invitations, telegrams, personal notes, and other memorabilia -- record the parties, the glittering receptions, the society weddings, and scenes from the everyday lives of the Dunnes and those they knew, including Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Brooke Hayward, Jennifer Jones, and David Selznick. You''ll meet them all in this fascinating book -- captured in snapshots as these celebrities relax at poolside barbecues, gossip at cozy get-togethers and dance at the Dunnes'' dazzling black-and-white ball. And you will meet Dominick Dunne''s beautiful wife, Lenny, and his children, Griffin, Alex, and Dominique, as they celebrate Christmases, birthdays, and graduations. But, most of all, you will meet Dominick Dunne and learn about the peaks and valleys of his years in Hollywood, the disastrous turn his life took, and the long road back that led to his triumphant career as a writer. With its engaging photographs and candid text, The Way We Lived Then is a riveting and unvarnished account of a life among the stars and a life almost lost.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without guilt, without shame, and without ever paying the price. They were the Bradleys, America''s royalty. But an outsider refuses to play his part. And now, the day of reckoning has arrived. Praise for A Season in Purgatory “Highly entertaining.”—Entertainment Weekly “Stunning.”—Liz Smith “Compelling.”—New York Daily News “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times “Potent characterization and deftly crafted plotting.”—Publishers Weekly

Dominick Dunne''s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the Los Angeles media frenzy surrounding O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmond Safra; or the Greenwich, Connecticut, murder of Martha Moxley and the indictment—decades later—of Michael Skakel, Dominick Dunne tells it honestly and tells it from his unique perspective. His search for the truth is relentless.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Good unclean fun . . . [a] convoluted, scandal-greased, exposed-backsides-of-the-rich-and-famous story . . . told in a confiding, breathless undertone.”—Entertainment Weekly Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. . . .

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne''s most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter''s life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

Before they had Too Much Money, the inhabitants of Dominick Dunne’s glitzy, gossipy New York Times bestselling novels were People Like Us. The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in–even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society to refuse them now. Not to mention disadvantageous. As long as the market is strong, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about–except for those nasty secrets from the past. Scandal, anyone?

The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes it difficult for him to focus on his next novel, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, and Konstantin’s hot-tempered widow will do anything to conceal the truth. Featuring favorite characters and the affluent world Dunne first introduced in People Like Us, Too Much Money is a mischievous, compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn’t afraid to share them.

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the world when he fled in a car chase carrying a gun and thousands of dollars, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims'' families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins pulped 400,000 copies. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the copyright to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million. The Goldman family views this book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is the original manuscript approved by O.J. Simpson, with up to 14,000 words of key additional commentary edited by the Goldman family.

Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty--and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne''s most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter''s life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Murder most swank . . . required reading.”—Vanity Fair When Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville—the indomitable family matriarch—he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight—as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy of silence that will bind them together for as long as they live. . . . “This is a candy box of a book. . . . Composed of just the right measure of sex, glamour, [and] passion.”—Cosmopolitan

En Los Ángeles, a principios de los noventa, todo el mundo envidia a Pauline y Jules Mendelson. Casados desde hace más de veinte años, con una reputación intachable y siempre envueltos en un halo de estudiada elegancia, sus fiestas en su espléndida mansión son cita obligada en la vida social de la ciudad. Pero esta estampa de perfección se disipa cuando las luces se apagan y asoma la vasta red de favores, mentiras e hipocresías que sostiene el imperio de los poderosos. Así, cuando Jules se encapricha de Flo, una camarera que sueña con ser actriz, cree que podrá controlar la situación y mantener una discreta aventura con ella, sin sospechar que se convertirá en una peligrosa obsesión. Por otro lado, la doble vida de uno de los mejores amigos de Pauline amenazará con sacar a la luz los secretos que esta opulenta comunidad intenta esconder a cualquier precio. En la que está considerada por la crítica como su novela más lograda, Dominick Dunne vuelve a su tema favorito para perfilar con exquisito detalle la intimidad de la alta sociedad estadounidense de finales del siglo xx. Un vívido retrato de la peculiar tipología de sus miembros y de sus costumbres, y del entramado de corrupción que les permite conservar sus privilegios. «''Una mujer inoportuna'' se eleva como un ácido retrato de la opulenta clase alta norteamericana del siglo XX. (...) La prosa divertida, punzante y vertiginosa de Dunne —que asume inevitablemente ecos de Fitzgerald— sume al espectador en la espiral que devora a los dos protagonistas de esta novela deliciosa.» Adrián Viéitez (Zenda) «Dominick Dunne retrata el mundo de la alta sociedad de Los Ángeles, a principios de años noventa, regido por los principios de que el dinero y la posición social lo pueden todo. (...) Dunne perfila con una extraordinaria pericia narrativa la historia del matrimonio Mendelson y de quienes pululan su entorno.» Iñigo Urruria (El Diario Vasco) «Hurga en la intimidad de los ricos, los poderosos, a los que abre en canal para mostrar su vida sin cortapisas, de forma detallada y exquisita.» Mariola Riera (La Nueva España) «Su mejor novela.» The New York Times Book Review «Una novela inteligente. Dunne sabe cómo se sienten sus personajes, cómo hablan, las cosas que ocultan y las que enseñan. Ha vivido en Los Ángeles pero tiene suficiente distancia para contarlo. Sabe todo lo que hay que saber. Pero sabe también que hay poco de ese mundo que envidiar.» Jill Robinson (The New York Times) «El mayor cronista de la sociedad americana desde Truman Capote, el único que escribe de la alta sociedad desde dentro.» Vanity Fair

Los Bradley, una rica y poderosa familia norteamericana de origen irlandés, saben cómo silenciar cualquier escándalo que pueda salpicar su reputación. Su implacable patriarca, Gerald Bradley, está empeñado en que su hijo predilecto, Constant, llegue un día a ser presidente de los Estados Unidos. Una noche de verano, después de un baile en el club de campo, una joven es asesinada y Constant se convierte en el principal sospechoso del crimen. Veintidós años más tarde, el famoso escritor Harrison Burns, antiguo compañero de colegio de Constant y viejo amigo de la familia, está decidido a confesar lo que sabe. ¿Saldrá la verdad finalmente a la luz? Una temporada en el purgatorio es una novela trepidante sobre la capacidad de influencia de las clases privilegiadas, cuyo control sobre los distintos resortes del poder les permite moldear la verdad a su antojo. Su publicación en 1993 consagró a Dominick Dunne como el gran cronista de los secretos más oscuros de la alta sociedad norteamericana.

Cuando a comienzos de la década de los cuarenta Billy Grenville -heredero de una de las fortunas más importantes de Nueva York- se encuentra por primera vez con la corista Ann Arden, se enamora perdidamente de ella, y para desesperación de su madre, Alice, la indómita matriarca del clan Grenville, decide casarse con ella. Ann intentará por todos los medios borrar las huellas de sus humildes orígenes y ser aceptada por la alta sociedad; toda su ambición se centrará en convertirse en una mujer elegante y mundana. Años más tarde, Billy muere en extrañas circunstancias y todas las sospechas recaen sobre Ann, a la que acusarán de asesinato. Aunque finalmente será absuelta, el misterio sobre la muerte de Billy nunca quedará resuelto. ¿Accederá Ann, por fin, a contarle su verdad a un conocido escritor con el que coincide en un crucero? Publicada por primera vez en 1985, Las dos señoras Grenville es, además de una apasionante novela de intriga, un certero retrato de la clase alta norteamericana y de los mecanismos que utiliza para conservar su hegemonía. Su éxito lanzó a la fama a Dominick Dunne, seguramente el mejor cronista que ha tenido la alta sociedad de Estados Unidos durante los últimos cuarenta años. «Con lenguaje certero, exacto y preciso, Dominick nos presenta la dosis justa de intriga, secretismo, elegancia, sexo, sofisticación y altas dosis de pasión. Sus personajes perfectamente retratados nos hacen asimilar la estructura mental de una sociedad y de una época»Raquel Espejo (La opinión de Málaga) «Las dos señoras de Grenville –publicada originalmente en 1985- es una obra extraordinaria, real como la vida misma, que funciona como novela de intriga, como narración sentimental, como análisis de dimensiones universales sobre los comportamientos de las diferentes clases sociales y como reflexión sobre cómo la pasión y el dinero son las grandes pulsiones que mueven el mundo.»Javier Sánchez Zapatero (La gaceta de Salamanca) «El libro es de los que no pueden abandonarse ni a las dos de la madrugada. Ni a las tres.»Manuel Hidalgo (El Mundo) «El mayor cronista de la sociedad americana desde Truman Capote, el único que escribe de la alta sociedad desde dentro.» Vanity Fair «Una elegante lectura. Una saga de amor, arribismo y asesinato ambientada en los exclusivos círculos del Upper East Side de Manhattan.» Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

本书汇集了刊登在美国“上流社会的圣经”——《浮华世界》上关于近20年美国的著名案件及审判的报道,多数案件由于法官的袒护、被告律师的谎言和伪证,致使陪审团作出错误的裁定,书中揭示出可能导致陪审团作出不公正裁定的各种潜在因素和司法制度中的漏洞。

Mana Berg knows she will never be a Hollywood star, but she is determined to achieve power in other ways, and prepares for battle in the world of glamour, power and sex. Dominick Dunne is the author of People Like Us, which was highly successful in both Britain and America.

C''est l''histoire du procès du siècle comme seul Dominick Dunne pouvait l''écrire. Exposé du point de vue de l''un des personnages de fiction les plus connus de Dunne - Gus Bailey - Une autre ville que la mienne raconte le procès d''O. J. Simpson, star internationale de football américain accusé d''un double meurtre au sommet de sa gloire en 1994, dans le vortex duquel sont tombés Gus, les blancs, les noirs, les politiques, les stars holywoodiennes, tout Los Angeles et les Etats-Unis. Une autre ville que la mienne accomplit ce qu''aucun autre ouvrage sur cette affaire sensationnelle n''a su accomplir, et ce grâce à la capacité unique de son auteur à sonder la sensibilité des acteurs et des observateurs. Avec ce roman, Dominick Dunne réalise son plus grand exploit.