Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

The Fact of a Body

Two Crimes, One Powerful True Story

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'Compulsive, eloquent and profoundly troubling' Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeWhen law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, she finds herself thrust into the tangled story of his childhood. As she digs deeper and deeper into the case she realizes that, despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.The Fact of a Body is both an enthralling memoir and a groundbreaking, heart-stopping investigation into how the law is personal, composed of individual… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5098-0564-8
EAN: 9781509805648
Produktnummer: 25068477
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.4 cm 238 g
Gewicht: 238
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in creative writing, an award given for her work on The Fact of a Body. Other honours in support of this, her first book, include a Rona Jaffe Award, a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Oxford American, Salon and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and also teaches graduate public policy students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.