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Item Information       Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Gordon, Meryl.     Subjects     Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011.     Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.     Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family.     Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.     Recluses -- United States -- Biography.     Social isolation -- Biography.     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.     Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.     Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography     Mansions -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gordon, Meryl.       by title:      The phantom of Fifth...       by call number:      302.545 C593g     Search the Web     Gordon, Meryl.     Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011.     Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.     Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family.     Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.     Recluses -- United States -- Biography.     Social isolation -- Biography.     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.     Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.     Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography     Mansions -- United States -- History.       MARC Display

The phantom of Fifth Avenue : the mysterious life and scandalous death of heiress Huguette Clark / Meryl Gordon. by Gordon, Meryl. Grand Central Publishing, 2014. Call #: 302.545 C593g Subjects Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011.   Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.   Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family.   Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.   Recluses -- United States -- Biography.   Social isolation -- Biography.   Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.   Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.   Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography   Mansions -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781455512638 (hc.) 145551263X (hc.) Alternate title:  Phantom of 5th Avenue : the mysterious life and scandalous death of heiress Huguette Clark Edition:  First Edition. Description:  382 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366) and index. Contents:  The Clark family reunion at the Corcoran -- The quest for "tante Huguette" -- Huguette's walk in Central Park -- The copper king -- The reinvention of Anna -- A Parisian girlhood -- The fractured fairytale -- Beginnings and endings -- Society girl -- Alone again -- Facts, fiction, and betrayal -- The lady vanishes -- A change of address -- The constant companion -- The great giveaway -- The long good-bye -- The battle for Huguette's fortune. Summary:  "Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America. At twenty-two Huguett had a personal fortune of $50 million. She married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded, copper cage?"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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