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Apr 30, 1996 · On a summer day in 1988, Carter Cooper, aged 24, dropped to his death from the 14th-floor terrace of his mother's New York City's apartment. Now, seven years later, Gloria Vanderbilt is finally able to set down the terrible events of that afternoon to which she was a witness in a book of overwhelming intensity, feeling, and beauty.
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Apr 30, 1996 · On a summer day in 1988, Carter Cooper, aged 24, dropped to his death from the 14th-floor terrace of his mother's New York City's apartment. Now, seven years later, Gloria Vanderbilt is finally able to set down the terrible events of that afternoon--to which she was a witness--in a book of overwhleming intensity, feeling, and beauty.
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May 1, 1997 · On a summer day in 1988, Carter Cooper, aged 24, dropped to his death from the 14th-floor terrace of his mother's New York City's apartment. Now, seven years later, Gloria Vanderbilt is finally able to set down the terrible events of that afternoon--to which she was a witness--in a book of overwhleming intensity, feeling, and beauty.
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May 10, 1996 · by Gloria Vanderbilt ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 10, 1996. bookshelf. shop now. A poignant and painful memoir of a son's suicide—the dark side of Mother's Day. At one point in this brief volume, Vanderbilt (The Memory Book of Starr Faithfull, 1994) says of herself, ``There's a place deep inside me that is hard as a diamond.''.
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Jan 27, 2010 · A mother's story. by. Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Cooper, Carter Vanderbilt, 1965-1988, Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-, Suicide victims, Mothers. Publisher. New York : A.A. Knopf.
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Looking back on her own traumatic childhood and the early death of her husband, the author discusses her anguish over the suicide of her twenty-four-year-old son and her struggle to cope with the pain and grief over the death of her child. The Amazon Book Review. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
Born to a railroad baron who died when she was still a toddler, Gloria Vanderbilt knew the comforts of family fortune but never maternal or paternal affection. In "A Mother's Story",...
