Cinderella Rockefeller: A Life of Wealth Beyond All Knowing - Hardcover

Elmer, Isabel Lincoln

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088191052X ISBN 13: 9780881910520

Publisher: Freundlich Books, 1987

Synopsis

The author traces her privileged life as a member of one of America's wealthiest families as she tries to come to terms with her own identity in a world so different from that of the usual mortal

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

A great-granddaughter of William Rockefeller (John D.'s brother and partner) here recounts her struggle to achieve identity and serenity despite the strictures of her family's wealth and a childhood bereft of parental warmth. The death from cancer of a girlhood friend inspired her to pursue science at college and cancer research counter to obligatory debutante society rituals. Elmer recalls in candid and simplistic detail the frustration of a stormy marriage and the birth of her four children for whom, as expected by her milieu, she forsook her career. Then attendance at a Billy Graham crusade set her on the path to achieving inner peace, according to the author, and led to her conversion to charismatic Christianity and to a vocation as director of social services for a Cape Cod Christian community. Photos. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Freundlich Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 088191052X
• ISBN 13: 9780881910520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217