Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies.

by Matt Rothschild

Hardcover, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

MEMO Roth

Genres

Biography & Memoir

General Nonfiction

History

Collection

Michael C. Weidemann LGBT Library at Gay City

Publication

Crown (2008), Edition: 1, 320 pages

Description

The only Jewish family in a luxury Fifth Avenue building of WASPs, the senior Rothschilds took over the responsibility of raising their grandson, Matt, after his mother left him for Italy and a fourth husband.

User reviews

LibraryThing member iBeth

This author graduated from my college (somewhat after I did). I enjoyed reading about his childhood in a super-rich family; clearly money really can't buy everything. The beginning of the book is the funniest (e.g., when the grandfather is dismayed that the chauffer drives up in the white Rolls

after labor day--what will the neighbors think?), but by the end of the book, the narrator had earned my respect.

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LibraryThing member coolmama

LOVED IT!
Hysterical!
Poor little rich kid, Matt, has been left by him mom and raised by his Rothschild grandparents (both near 70 when he was born) on the UES of NYC.
Misfit, fat, gay, troublemaker. Total dysfunctional family!
Great great tale.
Can't wait for more!!

LibraryThing member thecate

Loved this book. It was a really quick read because I really didnt want to put it down. Hysterically funny. I really felt for him and it was easy to love him and the grandparents. It really is a must read.

LibraryThing member satyridae

This is one of the more enjoyable memoirs I've read in recent memory. When I closed the book, I wanted more. Rothschild (yep, one of those Rothschilds) was raised by his idiosyncratic, irreverent and truly lovable grandparents. He was, to put it mildly, a bit of a handful. Less a peek into the

rich-and-famous-life and more an illustration of how to put the fun in dysfunctional, it's a book that avoids mean-spiritedness and honors love. Highly recommended.

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