Bibliograph

A season in purgatory, by Dominick Dunne

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A season in purgatory, by Dominick Dunne

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A season in purgatory

Responsibility statement

by Dominick Dunne

Summary

In A Season in Purgatory, Dunne explores a wealthy Catholic family, a sinister murder of an innocent girl, and its twenty-year cover-up. When Harrison Burns first meets the family of his boarding school chum Constant Bradley, he is awed by their wealth and generosity. But the Bradleys are a family of strong social aspirations and unrelenting political ambition, and Harrison soon learns that friendship with the Bradleys has its price. As Harrison Burns strips away the facade of wealth and acquisition, he brings the reader face to face with the inner structure of a large family at odds with the religion that is at its core, and the terrible secret that is his purgatory to bear

Target audience

adult

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