- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; First Printing edition (17 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0739458736
- ISBN-13: 978-0743276948
- ASIN: 0743276949
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 477,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"What Remains" begins with loss and returns to loss. A small plane plunges into the ocean, carrying John Kennedy and Carolyn, Carole's cousins-in-law and closest friends. Three weeks later Carole's husband, Anthony, nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, died. He was diagnosed with cancer shortly before their wedding and his illness became the focal point of their five-year marriage. The summer of the plane crash, the four friends were meant to be cherishing Anthony's last days. Instead, Carole and Anthony mourned John and Carolyn, even as Carole planned her husband's memorial. This is a candid, intimate and compelling story of love, loss and, ultimately, resilience.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
4.5 stars
"Orson Wells said to Gore Vidal once, in an interview about a movie he was writing, 'if you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop your story'". Carole Radziwell begins her book with this quote and understands this all too well. Her book is such a story about love and loss and recovery.
"Orson Wells said to Gore Vidal once, in an interview about a movie he was writing, 'if you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop your story'". Carole Radziwell begins her book with this quote and understands this all too well. Her book is such a story about love and loss and recovery.
Carole DiFalco lived and grew up in Suffern, New York, 40 odd miles from New York City, but it was a lifetime away in reality. She had a proper childhood and grew up in a close knit family; they all loved to cook and loved their grandmother, the center of the family. At the age of 19, Carole realized she needed to move on with her life and took a job at "ABC News". This job led her to many adventures in Cambodia, Tel Aviv, and Saigon. As she worked her way up the ladder to Assistant Producer, she felt more comfortable with herself and her life. She was sent to California to work on the Mendoza murder trials ,and there she met the love of her life, Anthony Radziwell. Anthony also worked for ABC, and they started a romance that built slowly over a couple of years. At last they realized they were in love and Anthony proposed.
Moving into the whirl of the Radziwell family was no small feat. This is a large family with close connections to everything and everybody. Carole's mother-in-law, Lee Radziwell, was the sister of Jackie Kennedy, and was once married to a Polish Prince. Anthony's closest and best friend was John Kennedy Jr., and his girlfriend and then wife, Carolyn, became Carole's closest friend. Carole and Carolyn felt a kinship, outsiders in this famous family, and slowly they began to find a place in the family. There are several references to the difficulty of living within the social whirl for both Carole and Carolyn. The center of Carole's universe, Anthony finds a large "lump" on his abdomen several months before they were married. This bump turns out to be a sarcoma, a cancer. There are many surgeries and over the five years of their marriage, much of it is spent in hospitals, clinics and/or gathering information about the new and next therapies. Carole develops the role of organizer, and it is she who leads the troops to win over the cancer. Anthony is the unwilling participant, and the rest of the family supports them both but play parts in the periphery. Carolyn Kennedy becomes the friend Carole Radziwell needs. She is there to offer comfort and solace and to bring a little life into the depressive life of those who have or care for someone with metastasic cancer. We see the love that John Jr and Carolyn have for each other.
Of course we all know the ending. The tragic airplane crash of Carolyn, her sister,Lauren, and John Kennedy, and then the death of Anthony two weeks later. The time of mourning and the slow recovery are explored. Carole Radziwell relays a little of the life of the Kennedy's, but not in a "gossipy" manner, but that of the emotional roller coaster that entails her life. Such an inspiring story, sure to hit the chord of anyone who has gone through the hard times in life. She gives us a first hand account of the loves and losses we all have in our life. She has a gift of a true writer and has shown us her deep insights.
"Fortune gives us nothing which we can really own". Seneca
Highly recommended. prisrob
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is beautifully written. I would recommend this book to all Amazon readers who have dealt with the loss of a friend or family member.
Carole tells the story of losing her husband to cancer following the tragic death of her best friend just 3 weeks before in a plane crash - her best friend Carolyn was married to John Kennedy Jnr.
The author tells her very sad and moving story in a beautifully written book. Carole gives us a rare insight into the Kennedy way of life and the last moments before the crash that killed JFK Junior. Carole's husband was the cousin of John Kennedy.
Carole tells the story of losing her husband to cancer following the tragic death of her best friend just 3 weeks before in a plane crash - her best friend Carolyn was married to John Kennedy Jnr.
The author tells her very sad and moving story in a beautifully written book. Carole gives us a rare insight into the Kennedy way of life and the last moments before the crash that killed JFK Junior. Carole's husband was the cousin of John Kennedy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I saw this book on the shelf in the bookshop and liked the look of the cover. I read the first couple of paragraphs telling you that the Kennedys have died in the plane crash and then her husband, Anthony three weeks later. I said to my daughter "You better make sure I've always got hankies I'm going to cry all the way through it." However, it was a great read, and I didn't need a hanky till the last section - "Endings". A book you can't put down. I thoroughly enjoyed it,it is not written in a gushy way but shows how life really is. You deal with the problems as they arise, you live for the day. The inner strength, courage and love Anthony and Carole have shines through. I would thoroughly recommend this book.
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