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With unprecedented access to the surviving family members-wife Ruth, son Andrew and his fiancé Catherine Hooper-journalist Laurie Sandell reveals the personal details behind the headlines. How did Andrew and Mark, the sons who'd spent their lives believing in and building their own families around

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With unprecedented access to the surviving family members-wife Ruth, son Andrew and his fiancé Catherine Hooper-journalist Laurie Sandell reveals the personal details behind the headlines. How did Andrew and Mark, the sons who'd spent their lives believing in and building their own families around their father's business first learn of the massive deception? How does a wife, who adored her husband since they were teenagers, begin to understand the ramifications of his actions? The Madoffs were" a tight-knit-even claustrophobic-clan, sticking together through marriages, divorces, and illnesses. But the pressures of enduring the massive scandal push them to their breaking points, most of all son Mark, whose suicide is one of the many tragedies that grew in the wake of the scandal.

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Publisher: New York : - Little, Brown

Pages: 340

Edition: 1st ed

ISBN: 9780316198936, 0316198935

Language: English

Contents: Preface
An unthinkable turn of events
The deep sea club
The book of Ruth
Trouble in paradise
Work/life
A painful affair
"You will have everything you want in life, but not in the way that you expect it"
Catherine and Andrew in love
Family ties
The calm before the storm
The big crash
The confession
Catherine and Andrew's new normal
Bomb scare
House arrest
The news goes from bad to worse
Two paths, two realities
Life after Bernie
Mark spirals
Picking up the pieces... again
Into darkness
Remembering Mark
Final showdown
Epilogue.

Statement of responsibility: Laurie Sandell

Physical description: viii, 340 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

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