Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story / John Berendt.
"Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt’s sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else."-- from publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679751526
- ISBN: 0679751521
- Physical Description: 386 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Vintage Books, 1999.
- Copyright: ©1994.
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General Note: | John Berendt. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Import |
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Subject: | Williams, Jim, d. 1990. Trials (Murder) > Georgia > Savannah. Savannah (Ga.) > History. Savannah (Ga.) > Social life and customs. |
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