Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Drama
| Utgitt | [London] : Vintage , 1995
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| Omfang | 338 s.
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| Opplysninger | Voodoo. Decadent socialites packing Lugars. Cotillions. With towns like Savannah, Georgia, who needs Fellini? Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil takes two narrative strands--each worthy of its own book--and weaves them together to make a single fascinating tale. The first is author John Berendt's loving depiction of the characters and rascals that prowled Savannah in the eight years it was his home-away-from-home. "Eccentrics thrive in Savannah," he writes, and proves the point by introducing Luther Diggers, a thwarted inventor who just might be plotting to poison the town's water supply; Joe Odom, a jovial jackleg lawyer and squatter nonpareil; and, most memorably, the Lady Chablis, whom you really should meet for yourself. Then, on May 2, 1981, the book's second story line commences, when Jim Williams, a wealthy antique dealer and Savannah's host with the most, kills his "friend" Danny Hansford. (If those quotes make you suspect something, you should.) Was it self-defense, as Williams claimed--or murder? The book sketches four separate trials, during which the dark side of this genteel party town is well and truly plumbed.
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| ISBN | 9780099521013(h.) : Nkr 149.00
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Midnight in the garden of good and evil
John Berendt; read by Anthony Heald
Lydbok på CD · Engelsk · 1997
John Berendt; read by Anthony Heald
Lydbok på CD · Engelsk · 1997
