Savage Grace Author:Natalie Robins, Steven M.L. Aronson Superficially, Savage Grace is a story of a spectacular decadence-of money, madness, and matricide. But it is also about a family unhappy in a very much its own way, declining from genius to glamour to final dissolution. The cast of brillian characters includes James Jones, William Styron, Patricia Neal, Alastair Reid, Bendran Gill and Francine ... more »du Plessix Gray; they and others, including the principals, tell the story themselves. Seldom has there been so devastating an exposure of the consequences for the most sophisticated people, of failure in the simplest duties of love. Jet-set expatriates in a murder case-how fast we turn the pages. Savage Grace has to be the best oral history to come out since Edie.« less