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Like Ruskin for a new age, Spalding brilliantly interweaves her own life and her subject’s in this story of a sensational murder case.
In 1982, as Linda Spalding was about to leave Hawaii and embark on a new life in Canada, she was called to jury duty, sitting for the trial of a young woman charged with murder. Maryann Acker was Mormon, eighteen years old, and married to a petty crook and hustler who had hauled her into a life that led eventually to murder on a hillside above one of Hawaii’s most beautiful beaches.
Twenty years later, Spalding stumbles across the journal she kept through the trial, tracks down Maryann, who is still in jail, and begins a journey into memory, into the twists of fate that spin two lives down such different trajectories. The story is Maryann’s but it is also Spalding’s, as subject and writer overlap. Like the work of John Ruskin, Linda Spalding’s writing brilliantly combines autobiography with the examination of an external subject and, in doing so, offers us profound insights into the vagaries of the human heart.
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Praise for The Follow:
“Spalding’s writing flows as effortlessly and as languidly as Borneo’s great Kumai River itself, which makes for a beautiful blend of science, travel, and personal essay. More than an important book . . . The Follow is a deeply moving literary experience.”
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Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Toronto in 1982. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. Her non-fiction work, The Follow, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize. She has been awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community.
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- EditoreMcClelland & Stewart
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 077108224X
- ISBN 13 9780771082245
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine304
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Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory
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Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. 8vo pp.295."Like Ruskin for a new age, Spalding brilliantly interweaves her own life and her subjectâs in this story of a sensational murder case. In 1982, as Linda Spalding was about to leave Hawaii and embark on a new life in Canada, she was called to jury duty, sitting for the trial of a young woman?. book. Codice articolo 212390
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Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Mur
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Hardcover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by the Author upon the ffep, 'For Bev, with love, Linda Spalding.' Very little to no wear. Quite clean. 'In 1978, William Acker and his young Mormon wife, Maryann, went on an armed robbery spree in two states that left two men murdered. Four years later, [the author] was living in Hawaii and was called for jury duty at the trial for the murder of one of those two men. . . The jury found Maryann guilty. Eighteen years later, Spalding stumbles across the journal she kept through the trial and tracks down Maryann, who is still in jail. She begins an investigation of her own to decide if she believes Maryann is guilty and to come to terms with the fact that she has held another woman's fate in her hands. Her search reveals much more than the answer to the principal question of Maryann's guilt or innocence as Spalding's growing understanding of the forces that drove Maryann's actions compel her to examine her own.' 295 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. Codice articolo 048588
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Who Named The Knife? : A True Story Of Murder And Memory
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