Details Are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder - Hardcover

Levine Author Of Details Are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan And The Sensational Café, Allan

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ISBN 10: 1493050915 ISBN 13: 9781493050918

Verlag: Lyons Press, 2020

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The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discovered in the bedroom of her New York City Beekman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan, for her murder, and his subsequent trial and conviction. But this story goes back in time to the 1920s, when Wayne Lonergan grew up in Toronto and then forward to his post-prison life following his deportation to Canada. It is the chronicle of Lonergan in denial as a bisexual or gay man living in an intolerant and morally superior heterosexual world; and of Patricia, rich and entitled, a seeker of attention, who loved a night out on the town—all set against the fast pace of New York’s ostentatious café society.

Part True Crime and part a social history of New York City in the 1940s, this book transports readers to the New York World’s Fair of 1939 when Patricia’s father William Burton first encountered Lonergan; the Stork Club, 21 Club, and El Morocco to experience with Patricia a night of drinking champagne cocktails and dancing; and the muggy New York courtroom where Lonergan’s fate was decided.

What truly happened on that tragic night in October 24, 1943? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession at face value as the jury did? Or was he indeed a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life? This book considers these, and other, key questions.

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Allan Levine is an award-winning internationally selling author and historian based in Winnipeg, Canada. He has written fourteen books including Toronto: Biography of City (2014) and King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny (2011), which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. His most recent book, Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience, was published in October 2018.

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• Verlag: Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1493050915
• ISBN 13: 9781493050918
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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