Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy - Rilegato

Mallon, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0375421173 ISBN 13: 9780375421174

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2002

Riassunto

A compelling portrait of a woman who became inextricably entangled in the history-making events of November 22, 1963 profiles Ruth Hyde Paine, an ordinary Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas who had befriended Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. 50,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Thomas Mallon’s books include the novels Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, and Aurora 7, as well as a collection of essays, In Fact. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The American Scholar, and GQ. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.

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years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in the Oswalds’ lives that she eventually became one of the Warren Com-
mission’s most important witnesses.

Mrs. Paine’s Garage is the tragic story of a well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job that put him six floors above Dealey Plaza―into which, on November 22, he fired a rifle he’d kept hidden inside Mrs. Paine’s house. But this is also a tale of survival and resiliency: the story of a devout, open-hearted woman who weathered a whirlwind of investigation, suspicion, and betrayal, and who refused to allow her enmeshment in the calamity of that November to crush her own life.

Thomas Mallon gives us a disturbing account of generosity and secrets, of suppressed memories and trag

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375421173
• ISBN 13: 9780375421174
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 211