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Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'.
These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Elegant and wicked . . . Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime. * <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> * The best non-fiction novel since IN COLD BLOOD and a lot more entertaining * Edmund White * Enthralling * Robert Winder, <i>Independent</i> * Berendt - and the reader - are in travel-writer heaven . . . This is a book which leaves you amused, spooked and introduced to a new piece of America * Mark Lawson, <i>Independent on Sunday</i> * Perfect storytelling - wildly funny, occasionally alarming and utterly enthralling * Moira Shearer, <i>Daily Telegraph</i> *
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Höhe: 120 mm
Breite: 83 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-4447-3872-8 (9781444738728)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John Berendt is a journalist and former editor of New York magazine. His first book, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, was an international bestseller. He lives in New York.