Who Named the Knife - Brossura

Spalding, Linda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0771082312 ISBN 13: 9780771082313

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart, 2007

Riassunto

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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Recensione

“A sometimes painful and always surprising voyage of personal rediscovery.”
— Globe and Mail

“Spalding is a gifted prose stylist.”
— Ottawa Citizen

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.”
—Globe and Mail

“Her book is a constant pleasure, flawlessly written, anchored in fact, and shot through with mystery.”
—Toronto Star

L'autore

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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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0771082312
• ISBN 13: 9780771082313
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304