Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Berendt, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340992859 ISBN 13: 9780340992852

Casa editrice: Coronet, 2009

Riassunto

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.

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Recensione:

Elegant and wicked . . . Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime. (The New York Times Book Review)

The best non-fiction novel since IN COLD BLOOD and a lot more entertaining (Edmund White)

Enthralling (Robert Winder, Independent)

Berendt - and the reader - are in travel-writer heaven . . . This is a book which leaves you amused, spooked and introduced to a new piece of America (Mark Lawson, Independent on Sunday)

Perfect storytelling - wildly funny, occasionally alarming and utterly enthralling (Moira Shearer, Daily Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Four years on The New York Times bestseller list

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• Editore: Coronet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0340992859
• ISBN 13: 9780340992852
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 386