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    Too Much Money: A Novel

    Written by Dominick Dunne

    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee and Nicholas Hormann

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    About this audiobook

    My name is Gus Bailey…It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening.

    The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble-$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him.

    The stress of the lawsuit makes it difficult for Gus to focus on the novel he has been contracted to write, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. It is a story that has dominated the party conversations of Manhattan's chattering classes for more than two years. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, such as why a paranoid man who was usually accompanied by bodyguards was without protection the very night he perished in a tragic fire.

    Konstantin's hot-tempered widow, Perla, is obsessed with climbing the social ladder and, as a result, she will do anything to suppress this potentially damaging story. Gus is convinced she is the only thing standing between him and the truth.

    Dominick Dunne revives the world he first introduced in his mega-bestselling novel People Like Us, and he brings readers up to date on favorite characters such as Ruby and Elias Renthal, Lil Altemus, and, of course, the beloved Gus Bailey. Once again, he invites us to pull up a seat at the most important tables at Swifty's, get past the doormen at esteemed social clubs like The Butterfield, and venture into the innermost chambers of the Upper East Side's most sumptuous mansions.

    Too Much Money is a satisfying, mischievous, and compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time-the man who knew all the secrets and wasn't afraid to share them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 15, 2009
    ISBN9780307712325
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    • 2/5
      Mr. Dunne was a star-f***ing snob to the end.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing. I've always enjoyed Dominick Dunne's books but this one just wasn' t up to scratch. Maybe because he was battling cancer when he wrote it, maybe because whatever the manuscript he left behind had not been honed enough, we'll never know. I certainly think he was ill-served by his editor and publisher. The repetitive descriptions about the characters became embarrassing, just left in to pad out the text I suspect - in some cases whole phrases or sentences were repeated. If this is the only book by DD you've ever read, don't give up on him, try one of his others - The Two Mrs Grenvilles is a cracker.
    • 2/5
      Audiobook - A book about the socialites didn't enjoy it.
    • 4/5
      Typical Dominick Dunne society novel, with thinly-disguised characters drawn from real life. A little bittersweet, as this is his last novel and the "autobiographical" narrator deals with end-of-life issues also. An enjoyable, light read and I'll miss having new ones occasionally.
    • 4/5
      Dunne's last book, this one is a zinger. I'm not sure I recognize all the people (they would be crushed). I enjoyed the time I spent with the crowd that exists in higher ether. They squabble, fart, go to and get out of prison (excuse me, a facility), have parties, take lovers, write letters, die and have funerals. It was a fast read.
    • 4/5
      I'm glad that Dunne found the time while fighting cancer to put together this last novel. It brings back a few favorites who've exploits I've come to relish in previous Dunne works: Gus Bailey, the thinly veiled self portiture of Dunne who is being sued for slander, Elias and Ruby Renthal, the fility rich couple who are again trying to buy their way into the New York high society after Elias' release from prison, and Lil VanDegan, a high society snob humbled by the forced down sizing of her life style. There are also some newbies to the scene that I didn't recognize: Adison Kent, a promiscus gay "walker" who gets access to society on the arms of fashionable women and Perla Zacharias, a women who Gus is writing about after the suspicious death of her husband. Dunne doesn't try very hard to pull all of these stories together especially during the first half of the novel where beyong attending the same parties the characters do not interact much at all. But he does put in a lot of treats for his long time fans, and gets a lot off of his chest. Too Much Money feels likes an extended goodbye. I, for one, will be whole heartedly disapointed that I will never be able to delve into a fresh Dunne novel. Please note that I "read" the audio version so please forgive the misspelling of any names.
    • 4/5
      I loved Dominick Dunne and his monthy diary was always the first thing I read when I received my copy of Vanity Fair magazine. It's been a while since we've had a novel from him, so it was a delight to pick this up & find all my old friends fom his other novels of society manners - Lil Altemus, Adele Harcourt, & Elias & Ruby Renthal. All of Dunne's novels are roman a clef & this one is especially transparent, especially if one has been following Dunne's obsessions in his magazine columns.This is not deep reading. Instead it's like diving into a giant box of excellent chocolate and not stopping until every last piece has been eaten. Sadly Dunne has gone to his great reward, so this will be the last of his highly enjoyable novels. In his memory I may go back and read all his earlier ones over again.
    • 4/5
      As I read Dominick Dunne’s last literary gift to us, Shakespeare’s phrase from HAMLET, lightly and insistently scampered through my mind. An appropriate farewell, I thought, to Dunne’s veiled insights into the rich, infamous, and legendary. Who better than Shakespeare to bid, Adieu…”"...Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellowof infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hathborne me on his back a thousand times; and now, howabhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims atit. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I knownot how oft. Where be your gibes now? yourgambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not onenow, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, lether paint an inch thick, to this favour she mustcome; make her laugh at that..."Thank you, Mr. Dunne. We will miss you.