A Handbook on Hanging (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Duff, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940322676 ISBN 13: 9780940322677

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Duff Charles

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Críticas:

"In its literary aspect it is deftly done. Smoothly, earnestly, unctuously the author carries on his defense of hanging as a fine art and his plea for bigger and better and more frequent hangings, never for a moment forgetting his pose or dropping his disguise, and never giving the reader the least ground for suspecting his good faith...He has made for the crusade against capital punishment a very effective stroke." --The New York Times

"A minor classic." --Dylan Thomas

"Likely to upset the equanimity of upholders of capital punishment far more than any ponderous tome of "high explosive" argument or invective." --The Observer

Reseña del editor:

A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be―justice, vengeance, a deterrent―it is certainly killing.

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• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0940322676
• ISBN 13: 9780940322677
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232