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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Finkel, Michael
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 320
Brilliant journalism meets true crime in the heart of America - in a bizarre, gripping and thought-provoking story with the same edgy intelligence and ambiguities as contemporary classics like Mailer's The Executioner's Song and Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ichael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how this brilliant, hardliving, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life; but in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and 3 children (their bodies were found in Oregon waterways, the largest and the smallest in suitcases), who then passed himself off as Michael Finkel, NY journalist, while on the run in Mexico. These two weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated (obsessed, even) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in prison would talk only to Finkel. Who is using whom-? It's all about truth and lies, and where journalistic truth deviates from reality; and about lives that take a wrong turning. It's very w
Author: Finkel, Michael
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 320
Brilliant journalism meets true crime in the heart of America - in a bizarre, gripping and thought-provoking story with the same edgy intelligence and ambiguities as contemporary classics like Mailer's The Executioner's Song and Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ichael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how this brilliant, hardliving, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life; but in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and 3 children (their bodies were found in Oregon waterways, the largest and the smallest in suitcases), who then passed himself off as Michael Finkel, NY journalist, while on the run in Mexico. These two weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated (obsessed, even) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in prison would talk only to Finkel. Who is using whom-? It's all about truth and lies, and where journalistic truth deviates from reality; and about lives that take a wrong turning. It's very w
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Finkel, Michael
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 320
Brilliant journalism meets true crime in the heart of America - in a bizarre, gripping and thought-provoking story with the same edgy intelligence and ambiguities as contemporary classics like Mailer's The Executioner's Song and Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ichael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how this brilliant, hardliving, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life; but in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and 3 children (their bodies were found in Oregon waterways, the largest and the smallest in suitcases), who then passed himself off as Michael Finkel, NY journalist, while on the run in Mexico. These two weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated (obsessed, even) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in prison would talk only to Finkel. Who is using whom-? It's all about truth and lies, and where journalistic truth deviates from reality; and about lives that take a wrong turning. It's very w
Author: Finkel, Michael
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 320
Brilliant journalism meets true crime in the heart of America - in a bizarre, gripping and thought-provoking story with the same edgy intelligence and ambiguities as contemporary classics like Mailer's The Executioner's Song and Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ichael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how this brilliant, hardliving, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life; but in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and 3 children (their bodies were found in Oregon waterways, the largest and the smallest in suitcases), who then passed himself off as Michael Finkel, NY journalist, while on the run in Mexico. These two weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated (obsessed, even) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in prison would talk only to Finkel. Who is using whom-? It's all about truth and lies, and where journalistic truth deviates from reality; and about lives that take a wrong turning. It's very w
