Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - A Savannah Story
Verlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
Auflage | 2009 |
Seiten | 400 |
Format | 13 x 19,7 x 2,6 cm |
Gewicht | 270 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0340992859 |
EAN | 9780340992852 |
Bestell-Nr | 34099285EA |
Four years on The New York Times bestseller list
Klappentext:
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.
Rezension:
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. The New York Times Book Review