True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa - Brossura

Finkel, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060580488 ISBN 13: 9780060580483

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2006

Riassunto

Follows the experiences of a former contributing editor to the New York Times magazine who, after fabricating part of a story and losing his job, was mistaken for a murderer and fled to Cancun, where he lived under an assumed identity and forged a complex relationship with the real killer. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“Carefully structured, rigorously reported, and fascinating till the end.” (Esquire)

“Astute and hypnotically absorbing . . . there’s a burning sincerity and beautifully modulated writing on every page.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

A riveting, disturbing and magnificent merging of two men at their lowest moments. (New York Newsday)

Combines crime and intellectual heft...could well become a classic of the genre. (Washington Post Book World)

Always fascinating, sometimes funny, often very weird . . . simply terrific from the first page to the last. (Jeffrey Toobin)

A compulsively readable amorality tale. (Boston Globe)

A memoir as creepy as it is compelling...expertly and suspensefully told. (Outside magazine)

L'autore:

Michael Finkel has written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060580488
• ISBN 13: 9780060580483
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320