Melanie Thernstrom

The Dead Girl

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Melanie Thernstrom's senior thesis was entitled Mistakes of Metaphor, an account of the mysterious disappearance and murder of her best friend, Bibi Lee. That thesis, reworked as The Dead Girl, was published by Pocket Books in 1990 to major critical acclaim.Berkeley student Roberta (Bibi) Lee went running with her lover Bradley Page on a Sunday in 1984. He came back alone. When she failed to return police mounted one of the largest missing-person searches in California history. Five weeks later Roberta's battered body was found and within hours, Page had confessed to Roberta's murder—a confession he was later to recant. With its enduring… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Shields, David (Ausw.)

ISBN: 978-1-940436-13-5
EAN: 9781940436135
Produktnummer: 16225664
Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 430 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D4.1 cm 522 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 522

Über den Autor

Melanie Thernstrom is an author and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Halfway Heaven: A Diary of a Harvard Murder, The Pain Chronicle, and The Dead Girl. Melanie lives with her husband and two children in Palo Alto, CA.David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead; Reality Hunger, named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications; and Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in Seattle, WA.