Halfway Heaven by Melanie Thernstrom
A journalistic account of the situation which drove an Ethiopian student, Sinedu Tadesse, to stab her Vietnamese room-mate Trang Phuong, and then to hang herself, at Harvard University in 1995. The author concentrates on the pressures and motivations which may have influenced the girl's actions.
'A meticulous account of the tragedy in a gracefully written and moving book that combines first-rate journalism, well-informed clinical discussion and a brief meditation on the nature of evil' WALL STREET JOURNAL'A complex and mature work of true crime' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A haunting story of insiders and outsiders' TLS'This elegant dissection of a college tragedy has qualities in common with Donna Tartt's thriller THE SECRET HISTORY, being razor-sharp and none too impressed by the elitism of America's East Coast Universities.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'[A] sad, beautiful book, which remains in your mind long after you've finished it.' IRELAND THE EXAMINER
Melanie Thernstrom graduated from Harvard University in 1987 and has taught writing at Cornell, Harvard, and Boston University. Her journalism has appeared in the New Yorker. She lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860495564 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860495567 |
| Title | Halfway Heaven |
| Author | Melanie Thernstrom |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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