What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Oct 2005 · Simon and Schuster
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A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.
What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy.
What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. A small plane plunges into the ocean carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., Anthony’s cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole’s closest friend. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer. With unflinching honesty and a journalist’s keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the enduring ties of family, the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention. Beautifully written, What Remains “gets at the essence of what matters,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. “Friendship, compassion, destiny.”
What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy.
What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. A small plane plunges into the ocean carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., Anthony’s cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole’s closest friend. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer. With unflinching honesty and a journalist’s keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the enduring ties of family, the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention. Beautifully written, What Remains “gets at the essence of what matters,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. “Friendship, compassion, destiny.”
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September 25, 2014
I could not put this book down. I enjoye her writing style immensley. So straightforward and honest. As a young widow I look forward to her next story which I understand is about widowhood. Thank you for sharing intimate details of this horrible life tragedy.
Angela MFisher
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October 10, 2014
This book touchingly takes the reader through the myriad of emotions; of not only dealing with terminal illness, but of building a life. A life full of complicated, deep and lasting relationships.
Laura Gomoljak
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March 22, 2014
Thois book was one that I could not put down. I just went to a similar situation in January and we are still mourning. I could not believe the similarity of what her and Anthony's life had become month after month. I remeber the diagnosis of liver cancer we got and the immediate response to surgery and just remove it all. Then we will get on with life. Then 8 months later same thing. Every three months the sonogram tto make sure it hadn't grown larger or metastasized, god forbid. Then weekly visits on Saturday mornings for about three months getting stomach drained of fluid that had leaked from her , liver like an overloaded sponge. Losing anywhere from 4 to 9 lbs a week. In the last couple of days her eyes were sunk in and so skinny. She didn't move for two days. She couldn't walk without or help.
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About the author
Carole Radziwill worked as an award-winning journalist with ABC News for fifteen years. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller What Remains, the novel A Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating, and she stars on the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York.
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