Michael Lesy

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." Luc Sante

Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy's first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City exposes the dark side of the Jazz Age. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder casesincluding that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical ChicagoLesy's sharp, fearless storytelling makes a compelling case that this collection of criminals may be progenitors of our modern age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393077711
• Artikelnr.: 59588872

Autorenporträt

Michael Lesy is one of America's leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel's World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College.