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Customer Review
lyrical, evocative and elegant
5/5 Stars
Carole Radziwill's memoir is an exquisite description of loving relationships, family expectations, and maintaining a marriage with constant threat of terminal illness. The book is written in a no-nonsense tone-as the tragic story of her husband's recurrent cancer unfolds, Carole never resorts to hyperbole. Interconnected themes are deftly strung together like pearls. Anthony Radziwill did not want others to know of his illness, and the weight of maintaining a pretense that all was well increased with each bad check-up. His deteriorating prognosis and certain death was never openly discussed, although his cousin, John Kennedy, tried to push Carole into doing so.
What remains is a wonderful testament to Anthony Radziwill and John and Carolyn Kennedy, not because of what Carole Radziwill tells us, but because of how she tells their story. Radziwill's sentences shimmer and dance and wrap themselves around the reader. Her use of language is so masterful that the Radziwill/Kennedy names become mere background to the story of four young people whose hopes and dreams ended nearly as soon as they began. This book is beautifully written.
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What Remains