'Sensual and full of longing, COME TO THE EDGE is a haunting, timeless love letter, a universal tale of romance.

Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of WASHINGTON: A LIFE This is a beautiful and, in the end, unutterably sad book about fleeting innocence, blighted hope, and the elusive nature of youthful love.' Jackie Kennedy Onassis floats through the narrative as an enchanting presence who is appealing in her wisdom and bounty. However charming the hero or scenic the backdrop, the memoir is tinged with the tragic darkness that inevitably shadowed the Kennedy clan, with death and danger forever lurking just beyond camera range. The author never stoops to tabloid sensationalism or cheapens this rare glimpse into America's royal family. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to fathom the meaning of his life. 'With unfailing grace, sensitivity, and tact, Christina Haag recreates in poignant detail her prolonged romance with John F. Dani Shapiro, author of DEVOTION and STILL WRITING COME TO THE EDGE should be read not only for its fascinating insider's view, but because it's a brave, human, beautiful, wrenching memoir.' But in this finely-drawn, indelible portrait of a friendship and love affair, Christina Haag illuminates the private world of one of our nation's most legendary families. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Rarely has a love story been told so beautifully. 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. 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.Ī 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. Glamorous and often in the public eye, but also passionate and deeply intimate, their relationship was transformative for both of them. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.

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. 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. When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. 'Lyrically and precisely recaptures the frenetic ecstasy of early love.'- Washington PostĪn elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace.

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