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Winfield: Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths by Monica Randall Sales Rank : 70,716

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition May 21, 2003 ISBN: 0312309821 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds. Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews. From Publishers Weekly When Dominick Dunne praises a book, you can be sure about the subject: rich people and fabulous houses. But readers should be warned: this page-turner is also a weird ghost story. Randall, who spent her teen years raiding soon-to-be-destroyed mansions on Long Island's Gold Coast, rescuing everything from fixtures to furniture, later lived in Winfield, the mansion built by the fabulously wealthy and eccentric (he was obsessed with Napoleon) F.W. Woolworth. A former fashion model, photographer and author of another book about Gold Coast mansions, Randall moves from historical drama to melodrama when detailing how she came to call Winfield home. But she achieves an ideal balance between the bizarre and the compelling; even her romance with a mysterious, and occasionally obnoxious, foreigner seems plausible. Toward the end, after a visitor to Winfield develops stigmata, a rat appears possessed by a long-dead spirit, and a desperate search for an Egyptian tomb behind a wall in the mansion's basement threatens to turn deadly, readers will expect Randall to confess that she's made the whole thing up. But not only does she make no such confession, she's researched psychic phenomena in an effort to make sense of it all, providing a creepy example of how truth can be not only stranger, but sometimes more gripping, than fiction. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description: Monica Randall grew up on the Gold Coast of Long Island and was fascinated by the massive estates and their tantalizing stories. Millionaire F. W. Woolworth built Winfield, the grandest of its manors in the 1910s. On a clear day, you can see the New York City skyline from its balustraded roof, yet for nearly a century few have been allowed to enter its gates.

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