Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands'suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a'walking streak of sex'.
These are some of the real residents of Savannah,Georgia,a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue,Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9780340992852Number of pages: 400Weight: 284 gDimensions: 197 x 168 x 27 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Elegant and wicked... Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.'- The New York Times Book Review
'The best non-fiction novel since In Cold Blood and a lot more entertaining.'- Edmund White
'Enthralling.'- Independent
'Berendt - and the reader - are in travel-writer heaven...this is a book which leaves you amused,spooked and introduced to a new piece of America.'- Independent on Sunday
'Perfect storytelling - wildly funny,occasionally alarming and utterly enthrallin'- Daily Telegraph
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