Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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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, sus-ptnseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a wor^of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining firsj:-perL6n account o^life in this isolated remnant of fhe Old South with the unpredictable twists i.nd turns of a.landmark murder case. '
It is a spe 'bindii.g story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the. hapless recluse who own: a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and . child in Savannah; the a^-ing and profane Southern belle who is the "saul of pampered self-absorption"; the... Tovább

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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, sus-ptnseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a wor^of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining firsj:-perL6n account o^life in this isolated remnant of fhe Old South with the unpredictable twists i.nd turns of a.landmark murder case. '
It is a spe 'bindii.g story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the. hapless recluse who own: a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and . child in Savannah; the a^-ing and profane Southern belle who is the "saul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing eon 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.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and
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masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city is certain to become a modern classic.
John Berendt writes a monthly column for Esquire. He has been the editor of New York magazine and lives in New York.
Jacket design: Carol Carson Jacket photograph of Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, hy Jack Leigh Random House, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10022 Printed in U.S.A. 1/94 ©1993 Random House, Inc. Vissza