Alix Strauss
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler . . . all famous, some rich and powerful, some beloved, some abhorred. But when life and circumstance got to be too much, each headed for the exit door. Sigmund Freud overdosed on morphine. Dorothy Dandridge stripped naked and swallowed a handful of antidepressants. Hunter S. Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone.
These are the lonely personal nightmares
...Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Offers portraits of eight lonely, strong and driven women who grapple with family, sex, power, love and death and are willing to put up a fight when pushed to the edge, and who all patronize an upscale Manhattan hotel, managed by Morgan, who is haunted by the memory of her dead sister.