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A Death in Belmont - Sebastian Junger, 9780393059809, hardcover

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Artist
Junger, Sebastian
ISBN
0393059804
Book Title
Death in Belmont
Item Length
8.6in
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year
2006
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1in
Author
Sebastian Junger
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime
Topic
Murder / General, Murder / Serial Killers, General, Criminals & Outlaws
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393059804
ISBN-13
9780393059809
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50864821

Product Key Features

Book Title
Death in Belmont
Author
Sebastian Junger
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Murder / Serial Killers, General, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv6534.B43j86 2006
Reviews
With the same attention to detail he displayed in his previous bestseller The Perfect Storm, Junger looks at criminal prosecution in the decades before CSI would prompt juries to demand scientific evidence before sending a suspected killer to jail. And he raises questions about race in Boston in the 1960s. . . . Junger's book is a riveting read., The perfect story. . . . It's difficult to communicate, to those who have only read about it, the atmosphere of fear that gripped Boston during the rampage of the Boston Strangler. From 1962 to 1964, 13 women were strangled in their homes, possibly by the same killer. There was never a sign of forced entry. A horrifying crime from that time forms the background of Sebastian Junger's new book, A Death in Belmont ., In DeSalvo's dark world, Junger's clear, beautifully reasonable writing is the literary equivalent of night-vision goggles. . . . He's navigating a maze of shadows, and you can see all the more clearly what an enormously skillful prose artist he is., 4 stars. . . . Sebastian Junger's first brush with horror came early. . . . Wondering if DeSalvo may have killed his neighbor, Junger exhumes the evidence in both cases. He recounts the crimes and trials and interviews witnesses, including his parents. As he goes deeper, the story becomes that much more awful, a commentary on racial assumptions and the illusion of suburban safety., Junger returns to the time and place of his earliest memories, and pieces together a remarkable and disturbing tale about crime and justice in America. You get the sense that this story has been incubating for a long time, and Junger's painstakingly researched and carefully reported book, with its clear, straightforward prose, has the dramatic power of a great novel. . . . Junger has produced a terrific and provocative book that addresses such subjects as race, crime, our notions of justice and the mysteries of criminal pathology without ever losing its narrative drive. It would be difficult, in fact, to find a recent American novel that says as much about so many of the important issues of our time, and says it so compellingly., The perfect story. . . . It's difficult to communicate, to those who have only read about it, the atmosphere of fear that gripped Boston during the rampage of the Boston Strangler. From 1962 to 1964, 13 women were strangled in their homes, possibly by the same killer. There was never a sign of forced entry. A horrifying crime from that time forms the background of Sebastian Junger's new book, A Death in Belmont.
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2006-000488
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3097444
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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  • A book you won't be able to put down....

    Sebastian Junger is one of my favorite reporters, authors, and now filmakers. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in serial homicide and it's mechanics. The fact that Junger and his mother actually had contact with Albert DeSalvo is chilling in itself. Once I saw the picture of the Junger family with DeSalvo in the background, I was immediately hooked and just had to read the book in furious abandon for an explanation. Junger takes us back to the early 1960's when JFK was still in the White House while a monster patrolled the streets Boston and it's suburbs randomly raping and strangling any female that would answer their door after he knocked. Junger delves into the root causation and theories of sexual homicide, as well as providing the reader with an in-depth background on ...

  • A Death in Belmont

    Sebastian Junger is one of my favorite authors because of his meticulous research. His mother, when he was a baby, had three workers build an addition onto her house. One of these workers was the Boston Strangler and she found this out later on. She was lucky not to have been one of his victims. The book is about a woman's murder in Belmont. Was it the Boston Strangler or another man who had been hired to clean her house that day? All the facts are there and it is mystfying. A good read.

  • Boston strangler revealed ??

    this book is about a guy whos mother hired the Boston strangler (she thinks) to do work around her house. The neighbor turns up dead, was this the first person killed by the boston strangler ? The books looks into that idea. The book makes it sound completely possible. You read it and decide for yourself.

  • A Death in Belmont was an interesting book

    I bought this book for my son's college English class. I decided to read it myself. It's about the Boston Strangler and very informative. Parts of it were slow and by the last chapter I was starting to lose interest, as I felt like the same information was being presented over and over.

  • The Burden of Proof

    Junger set himself a considerable challenge - to write a credible nonfiction work centered on a tragedy that left no eyewitnesses in The Perfect Storm. A Death in Belmont is at once less satisfying and yet even more intriguing and unsettling than The Perfect Storm.