Halfway Heaven - Hardcover

Thernstrom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385487452 ISBN 13: 9780385487450

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

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Book by Melanie Thernstrom

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Based on her article in The New Yorker magazine, the author offers the complete story of a murder-suicide of two immigrant girls at Harvard and the efforts of administrators to minimize the tragedy to protect Harvard's reputation. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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efore the end of spring term, an anonymous note arrived at The Harvard Crimson.  It contained a photograph of a student and a typed message: "Keep this picture.  There will soon be a very juicy story involving this woman."  Now, the critically acclaimed author of The Dead Girl reveals the never-before-told story of two girls--one from Ethiopia, the other from Vietnam--for whom admission to Harvard was like "halfway heaven," the stepping stone to the American Dream that would ensure success for them and their families; and how they met instead with the darkest of all fates: a tragedy that might have been prevented.

Based on Melanie Thernstrom's article in The New Yorker, here is the complete story of an unfathomable murder/suicide that shocked the country--and a groundbreaking exposÚ of one of America's most distinguished universities.  Drawing on the astonishing diaries kept by the murd

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385487452
• ISBN 13: 9780385487450
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 6