True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa - Couverture rigide

Finkel, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 006058047X ISBN 13 : 9780060580476

Editeur : Harper, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Finkel Michael

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.

The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian Longo, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for killing his entire family, has recently been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity -- Michael Finkel of the New York Times.

The next day, on page A-3 of the Times, comes another bit of troubling news: a note, written by the paper's editors, explaining that Finkel has falsified parts of an investigative article and has been fired. This unlikely confluence sets the stage for a bizarre and intense relationship. After Longo's arrest, the only journalist the accused murderer will speak with is the real Michael Finkel. And as the months until Longo's trial tick away, the two men talk for dozens of hours on the telephone, meet in the jailhouse visiting room, and exchange nearly a thousand pages of handwritten letters.

With Longo insisting he can prove his innocence, Finkel strives to uncover what really happened to Longo's family, and his quest becomes less a reporting job than a psychological cat-and-mouse game -- sometimes redemptively honest, other times slyly manipulative. Finkel's pursuit pays off only at the end, when Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally says what he wouldn't even admit in court -- the whole, true story. Or so it seems.

Revue de presse :

“Carefully structured, rigorously reported, and fascinating till the end.” (Esquire)

“Astute and hypnotically absorbing . . . there’s a burning sincerity and beautifully modulated writing on every page.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

A riveting, disturbing and magnificent merging of two men at their lowest moments. (New York Newsday)

Combines crime and intellectual heft...could well become a classic of the genre. (Washington Post Book World)

Always fascinating, sometimes funny, often very weird . . . simply terrific from the first page to the last. (Jeffrey Toobin)

A compulsively readable amorality tale. (Boston Globe)

A memoir as creepy as it is compelling...expertly and suspensefully told. (Outside magazine)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 006058047X
• ISBN 13: 9780060580476
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320