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发表于2024-11-23
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The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
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 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.
Casey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After graduating from Harvard she earned an M.Phil. at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among many other publications. Furious Hours is her first book.
英文小说对我来说很累
评分英文小说对我来说很累
评分A very special one. There are murders, Deep South, and a very famous and successful writer.
评分个人属于虚构爱好者,读这本完全是冲着Harper Lee来的(但彼时对《杀死一只知更鸟》的了解仅限于Love, Simon里反复出现的那本小书,当然后来也买了《知更鸟》来读,并得知Love, Simon的男主也要出演《知更鸟》百老汇舞台剧——不过这都是后话了)。全书分三部分,两条故事线,一是杀人牧师麦克斯韦的被杀及其审理,二是想要以这起案件为题材写一部小说的Harper Lee。其实无论案件还是写作,结果都十分显而易见:牧师确实杀了人,也确实被仇敌所杀;作家确实进行了大量调查和写作,却也什么“成果”都没拿出来——那本让她姐姐拍案叫好的《牧师》我们至今连影子都没见到。但个中曲折,包括当时的社会环境、种族状况、经济发展乃至人与自然关系,其复杂与深远影响远非常人所想,读来大开眼界。
评分这本非虚构非常引人入胜,三个故事相互独立但是却互相联系。最期待的最后一个故事反而有点笔墨淡下去了。
《杀死一只知更鸟》这本书,哪怕没有读过的人,也一定听过它的大名。 1960年一出版,这本书立刻登上了畅销书排行榜,并摘下普利策奖,随后改编的电影在奥斯卡上8提3中,到发行一周年时已经卖出了50万册。 与荣耀相伴的收入也十分可观,以至于接下来的50多年中,作者哈珀 · 李...
评分哈珀·李大家应该非常熟悉,《杀死一只知更鸟》让她获得了包括普利策小说奖在内的多个文学奖项,还被授予了总统自由勋章。但她在这本书之后长达近五十年的时间里都没有出版任何新书。今天,我们先从一个真实发生的案件说起。 在美国的亚拉巴马州,有一名牧师叫麦克斯韦,他的五...
评分哈珀·李大家应该非常熟悉,《杀死一只知更鸟》让她获得了包括普利策小说奖在内的多个文学奖项,还被授予了总统自由勋章。但她在这本书之后长达近五十年的时间里都没有出版任何新书。今天,我们先从一个真实发生的案件说起。 在美国的亚拉巴马州,有一名牧师叫麦克斯韦,他的五...
评分哈珀·李大家应该非常熟悉,《杀死一只知更鸟》让她获得了包括普利策小说奖在内的多个文学奖项,还被授予了总统自由勋章。但她在这本书之后长达近五十年的时间里都没有出版任何新书。今天,我们先从一个真实发生的案件说起。 在美国的亚拉巴马州,有一名牧师叫麦克斯韦,他的五...
评分哈珀·李大家应该非常熟悉,《杀死一只知更鸟》让她获得了包括普利策小说奖在内的多个文学奖项,还被授予了总统自由勋章。但她在这本书之后长达近五十年的时间里都没有出版任何新书。今天,我们先从一个真实发生的案件说起。 在美国的亚拉巴马州,有一名牧师叫麦克斯韦,他的五...
Furious Hours pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024