My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond (Paperback)

from sanddancer

This book is never going to have a wide appeal, but amongst those who already know about the Beales of Grey Gardens, it should be essential reading. For anyone not already in the know, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" were relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis who were the centre of a society scandal w...

from manadabomb

I believe I'm beginning to get an unhealthy obsession with the Beales. My friend got me the documentary, Grey Gardens, for Christmas along with this book. I feel something familiar in the Beales. Lois Wright spent 13 months at Grey Gardens with Big Edie and Little Edie, after having known them fo...

from 2percentmilk

It took me the whole book to figure out why in the name of God Lois Wright would stay at Grey Gardens. Then it hit me. It was the Edies. Plain and simple.

from coolmama

Read in one day. What can one ad to the already bizarre story of Big and Little Eddie Beale in the ghetto mansion with feral cats, no running water and overrun by fleas? Lois Wright, a palm reader and "artist" lived with the Beales for over a year during the filming of the Maylses documentary. No...

from briandrewz

This tremendously quick read describes life at the East Hampton residence of Edith Beale, aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her daughter, Little Edie. Lois Wright was a friend and moved into the house for a period of thirteen months. The book is written in a journal style and is quite easy ...