In good condition: dust jacket, cover, and pages have light wear; writing on inside front cover; pages are unmarked; binding is tight.
Castle Ugly is a house: huge, hideous, magnificent, set on the dunes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at the far end of Long Island. To the girl who grew up there, married now and living on the Cote d'Azure half a world away, Castle Ugly stands as a mysterious symbol of all that is unsolved in her own life. It was there at Castle Ugly in the summer of 1938 that a group of rich, careless, "beautiful" people slipped toward tragedy, playing out the acts of a love story that began with casual dalliance and ended in violent death.
A mother and daughter stand at the center of the story. They bear the same name, Sarah, and look at life with the same restless amber eyes. It is Sarah the daughter who, years later, tells the story of the doomed, glittering people at Castle Ugly. Around the two Sarahs are the men: Harry, the stockbroker husband of one Sarah, father of the other; Jacob, the famous and trouble painter who loves the elder Sarah; Jacob's nephew, David Ralston, young Sarah's childhood friend; and Alexandre de Sulzbac, the long-lost French cousin.
