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100 1  Aldrich, Alexandra. 
245 10 Astor orphan|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cAlexandra 
       Aldrich. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bHarperAudio,|c2013. 
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511 0  Read by Tavia Gilbert. 
520    Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the famous Astor
       dynasty, grew up in the servants' quarters of Rokeby, the 
       forty-three-room Hudson Valley mansion built by her 
       ancestors. Her childhood was one of bohemian neglect and 
       real privation. But it was fairly stable until the summer 
       of her tenth year, when her father took up with an 
       alluring interloper, Giselle. Alexandra idolized her 
       father, Rokeby's charismatic lord of misrule, who had 
       attended elite private schools as a child but inherited 
       only landed property, not money. To him, she says, 
       "poverty was amusing, a delightful challenge." All of the 
       family's resources - emotional and financial - went to the
       maintenance of the Astor house and legacy. If the family 
       had sold the house and its 450 acres, they all would have 
       been able to live comfortably. Instead, Alexandra and her 
       parents lived precariously in the grand house, scavenging 
       for the next meal. Her mother, an icy Polish artist, 
       disguised her maternal indifference by extolling the 
       virtues of independence. Relatives preyed on Alexandra's 
       low status in the household. Once her father got involved 
       with Giselle, Alexandra's only stalwart was her 
       affectionate grandmother (whose great-great-grandfather, 
       Nicholas Fish, was a close friend of Alexander Hamilton's 
       and an executor of his estate). Grandma Claire held 
       Alexandra's life together with family dinner parties, 
       rides to violin lessons, and snacks after school. But as 
       she grew progressively more debilitated by alcohol, she 
       soon became too frail to provide a safe haven for her 
       granddaughter. Determined to impose order on her anarchic 
       world and prove her worth, Alexandra awoke promptly at six
       thirty each morning, adhering to a strict personal regimen
       of exercise, grooming, and intensive violin practice. With
       money borrowed from the owner of the local gas station, 
       she did the grocery shopping, occasionally setting aside 
       four dollars to buy herself clean white socks. The 
       betrayal of her father's flagrant affair, however, ignited
       a series of familial feuds that shook her hard-won 
       stability and set her on a path toward escaping the Astor 
       legacy. Reaching back to the Gilded Age, when that legacy 
       first began to come undone, Alexandra has written an 
       unflinching, mordantly funny account of neglect and class 
       anxiety amid the ruins of a once prominent family. More 
       than an insider's look at a decaying American institution,
       The Astor Orphan is the debut of a thrilling new voice 
       able to render the secret pains and glories of childhood 
       afresh. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Aldrich, Alexandra. 
600 10 Aldrich, Alexandra|xFamily. 
600 30 Astor family. 
600 30 Aldridge family. 
650  0 Upper class|zHudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
       |vBiography. 
651  0 Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)|xHistory|y21st century
       |vBiography. 
700 1  Gilbert, Tavia.|4nrt 
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