Murder in Mississippi - Softcover

Safran, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034913426X ISBN 13: 9780349134260

Verlag: Blackfriars, 2014

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Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird . . . It's a tremendous book. I can't praise it too highly (Louis Theroux)

A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane (Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test)

Stunning (Men's Style)

A winning combination of memoir, true crime and gonzo journalism . . . a compulsive summer read (Sunday Mail)

One of the best pieces of sustained, rigorous journalism I've read in twenty years. It is absolutely magnificent - smart, and wry, and emotional too (Caroline Overington)

Witty, insightful, compelling - In Cold Blood for our generation (Eddie Perfect)

The elegance of this book is that its axis is a resounding 'perhaps' . . . It is this moral ambivalence that draws readers to the true crime genre, and Safran nails it (Weekend Australian)

[Safran] has written a marvellous book which I cannot put down (Melbourne Observer)

Mississippi is like a trampoline for [Safran's] eccentricities. But the form and content of the story bring out an unfamiliar side of him (Sydney Morning Herald)

John Safran's captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening and hilarious. It is enlivened by a swarm of creepy locals and a torrent of astonishing details--such as hedge clippers put to surgical use in the performance of an official autopsy (John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)

Reseña del editor:

In 2009 John Safran, a controversial Australian journalist, spent an uneasy few days interviewing one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he hears that the man has been murdered by a young black man. But this is far from a straightforward race killing.

Safran flies back to Mississippi in a bid to discover what really happened, immersing himself in a world of clashing white separatists, black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbours and the killer himself. In the end, he discovers just how profoundly complex the truth about someone's life - and death - can be.

A brilliantly innovative true-crime story. Safran paints an engrossing and revealing portrait of race, money, sex and power in the modern American South.

'John Safran's captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening and hilarious' - John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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• Verlag: Blackfriars
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 034913426X
• ISBN 13: 9780349134260
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400