A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.
"The perfect story.. It's difficult to communicate, to those who have only read about it, the atmosphere of fear that gripped Boston during the rampage of the Boston Strangler. From 1962 to 1964, 13 women were strangled in their homes, possibly by the same killer. There was never a sign of forced entry. A horrifying crime from that time forms the background of Sebastian Junger's new book, A Death in Belmont." -- David Mehegan "4 stars... Sebastian Junger's first brush with horror came early... Wondering if DeSalvo may have killed his neighbor, Junger exhumes the evidence in both cases. He recounts the crimes and trials and interviews witnesses, including his parents. As he goes deeper, the story becomes that much more awful, a commentary on racial assumptions and the illusion of suburban safety." -- William Georgiades "In DeSalvo's dark world, Junger's clear, beautifully reasonable writing is the literary equivalent of night-vision goggles... He's navigating a maze of shadows, and you can see all the more clearly what an enormously skillful prose artist he is." -- Lev Grossman "Junger returns to the time and place of his earliest memories, and pieces together a remarkable and disturbing tale about crime and justice in America. You get the sense that this story has been incubating for a long time, and Junger's painstakingly researched and carefully reported book, with its clear, straightforward prose, has the dramatic power of a great novel... Junger has produced a terrific and provocative book that addresses such subjects as race, crime, our notions of justice and the mysteries of criminal pathology without ever losing its narrative drive. It would be difficult, in fact, to find a recent American novel that says as much about so many of the important issues of our time, and says it so compellingly." -- Brad Zellar "With the same attention to detail he displayed in his previous bestseller The Perfect Storm, Junger looks at criminal prosecution in the decades before CSI would prompt juries to demand scientific evidence before sending a suspected killer to jail. And he raises questions about race in Boston in the 1960s... Junger's book is a riveting read." -- Michele McPhee "Riveting... a worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm." -- Alan M. Dershowitz
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, Fire, War, Tribe, and Freedom. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393059809 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393059804 |
| Title | A Death in Belmont |
| Author | Sebastian Junger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2006-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger 2006 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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