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A Memoir
Spiegel and Grau
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
440 pages
ISBN: 0385523173
EAN: 9780385523172
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who
led his life with surprising and abundant grace
When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in
her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived
with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened
to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet
distance at all times. A decade later, after they had both
graduated from Brown University and were living in New York
City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play
together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing
crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.
Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate
and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative
for both of them. With exquisite prose, Haag paints a
portrait of a young man with an enormous capacity for love,
and an adventurous spirit that drove him to live life to its
fullest. A haunting book, Come to the Edge is a lasting evocation of
a time and a place—of the indelible sting of the loss of
young love, and of the people who shape you and remain with
you, whether in person or in spirit. It is about being young
and full of hope, with all the potential of your life as yet
unfulfilled, and of coming of age at a moment in New York’s
history when the city at once held danger, magic, and
endless possibilities for self-discovery. Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully.
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