The Dead Girl - Couverture souple

Thernstrom, Melanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1940436133 ISBN 13 : 9781940436135

Editeur : Counterpoint, 2014

Synopsis

Melanie Thernstrom's senior thesis was entitled Mistakes of Metaphor, an account of the mysterious disappearance and murder of her best friend, Bibi Lee. That thesis, reworked as The Dead Girl, was published by Pocket Books in 1990 to major critical acclaim.



Berkeley student Roberta (Bibi) Lee went running with her lover Bradley Page on a Sunday in 1984. He came back alone. When she failed to return police mounted one of the largest missing–person searches in California history. Five weeks later Roberta's battered body was found and within hours, Page had confessed to Roberta's murder—a confession he was later to recant. With its enduring themes of innocence and evil, truth and uncertainty, human motives and emotions, The Dead Girl is a complex exploration of the nature of reality and the frail, shifting and suspect ways in which we respond to it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Melanie Thernstrom is an author and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Halfway Heaven: A Diary of a Harvard Murder, The Pain Chronicle, and The Dead Girl. Melanie lives with her husband and two children in Palo Alto, CA.

David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead; Reality Hunger, named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications; and Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in Seattle, WA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1940436133
• ISBN 13: 9781940436135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 430
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• Personne responsable: non disponible