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In the tradition of Sean Wilsey's Oh The Glory than it All and Augusten Burrough's Jogging With Scissors, the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand travel of the world of prosperity and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir.
For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in NY, because of the inherited bundle of money of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy's delivery, the Burden's possessed turn into a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadfastly chauvinistic, and in the end doomed bluebloods on the verge of financial and moral decline-and were almost never seen not positioning a drink. In Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy invites readers to meet her tragically flawed family, including an uncle with a fondness for Hitler, a grandfather who feels you can't ever have enough household staff, and a remarkably flatulent grandmother.
In the centre of the storyline is Wendy's glamorous and aloof mom who, after her husband's suicide, travels the world searching for the perfect sea and ski tan, giving her three children in the health care of a chain- smoking Scottish nanny, Fifth Avenue grandparents, and an assorted cast of long-suffering household servants (who Wendy and her brothers love to terrorize). Rife with humor, heartbreak, family intrigue, and booze, Dead End Gene Pool offers a glance into the amazing world of old money and provides truth to a vintage maxim: The abundant are different.
For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in NY, because of the inherited bundle of money of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy's delivery, the Burden's possessed turn into a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadfastly chauvinistic, and in the end doomed bluebloods on the verge of financial and moral decline-and were almost never seen not positioning a drink. In Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy invites readers to meet her tragically flawed family, including an uncle with a fondness for Hitler, a grandfather who feels you can't ever have enough household staff, and a remarkably flatulent grandmother.
In the centre of the storyline is Wendy's glamorous and aloof mom who, after her husband's suicide, travels the world searching for the perfect sea and ski tan, giving her three children in the health care of a chain- smoking Scottish nanny, Fifth Avenue grandparents, and an assorted cast of long-suffering household servants (who Wendy and her brothers love to terrorize). Rife with humor, heartbreak, family intrigue, and booze, Dead End Gene Pool offers a glance into the amazing world of old money and provides truth to a vintage maxim: The abundant are different.
