La casa de Riverton / The House at Riverton: A Novel (Spanish Edition)

Verano de 1924. Durante una rutilante fiesta de la alta sociedad en Riverton Manor, un joven y prometedor poeta se quita la vida. Invierno de 1999. Grace Bradley, una anciana de noventa y ocho años que otrora fuera doncella en la mansión de Riverton, recibe la visita de una joven directora de cine que está rodando una película sobre aquel suicido. Esa visita convoca los recuerdos que durante décadas Grace había relegado a lo más profundo de su mente, incapaz de enfrentarse a ellos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at Riverton House, a young poet shot himself. In 1999, Grace Bradley, a ninety-eight year-old woman, once servant of Riverton, is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to the house and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties, and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever.