Furious Hours by Casey Cep
New York Times Best SellerCompelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was one of your favorite books growing up, you should add Furious Hours to your reading list today. --Southern Living Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted--thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more years working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity.
The New Yorker's Casey Cep is a staff writer. She got an M.Phil in theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Fellow after graduating from Harvard with a degree in English. Her family and she live on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Her debut novel is Furious Hours. www.caseycep.com is a website dedicated to Casey Cep.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781101947869 |
| ISBN 10 | 1101947861 |
| Title | Furious Hours |
| Author | Casey Cep |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2019-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2019 |
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