Wasted by Linda Wolfe
A New York Times Notable Book: Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe delivers a riveting, comprehensive account of the Preppie Murder, a crime that shocked a city and a nation.It was called the Preppie Murder--a killer and a victim who were attractive, smart, privileged teenagers. On an August night in 1986 Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park.
Linda Wolfe, hailed by critic John Leonard as one of our best reporters, goes beyond the headlines and media hype to re-create a story of privilege and excess, sex and partying--of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug user who'd been expelled from the best schools. It's all here, from the initial police investigation, during which Chambers claimed Levin died accidentally during rough sex, to the media frenzy of the courtroom, where Chambers took an eleventh-hour plea. Wolfe also delivers heartbreaking portraits of Levin's grief-stricken father, Chambers's in-denial mother, and the women who dated the accused Preppie Killer while he was out on bail.
A finalist for the 1990 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Wasted also powerfully depicts the freewheeling 1980s society that spawned a generation steeped in violence and the fatal impulses that drove Robert Chambers to kill.
Linda Wolfe is the author of five true-crime novels: The Professor and the Prostitute and Other Real Stories of Murder and Madness, Love Me to Death, Double Life, The Murder of Dr Chapman, and Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder, which was a New York Times Notable Book and was nominated for an Edgar Award. She is also the author of the memoir My Daughter, Myself, the classic cookbook The Literary Gourmet, and the novel Private Practices. Wolfe's essays and articles have appeared in a number of publications, including Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, and New York magazine, where she served as a contributing editor. She currently contributes a book review to the website www.FabOverFifty.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671641849 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671641840 |
| Title | Wasted |
| Author | Linda Wolfe |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1989-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 303 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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