Bedford Public Library

The cave dwellers, a novel, Christina McDowell

eng

Includes bibliographical references

genealogical tables

no index present

fiction

The cave dwellers

bibliography

Christina McDowell

a novel

"A compulsively readable novel in the vein of The Bonfire of the Vanities--by way of The Nest--about what Washington, DC's high society members do away from the Capitol building and behind the closed doors of their suburban mansions"--, Provided by publisherTheir aristocratic bloodlines are woven into the very fabric of Washington; their old money and manner lurk through the cobblestone streets of Georgetown, Kalorama, and Capitol Hill. They only socialize within their inner circle, turning a blind eye to those who come and go on the political merry-go-round. What they fail to understand is that the world is changing. And when the family of one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered, everything about their legacy is called into question. -- adapted from jacketThey are the families considered worthy of a listing in the exclusive Green Book, a discriminative diary created by the niece of Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary. Their aristocratic bloodlines are woven into the very fabric of Washington. Parents and their children living life free of consequences in a gilded existence of power and privilege. But what they have failed to understand is that the world is changing. And when the family of one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered, everything about their legacy is called into question