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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100743210913
ISBN-139780743210911
eBay Product ID (ePID)44471691
Product Key Features
Book TitleUnder the Bridge : the True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMurder / General, General, Legal History, Life Stages / Adolescence, Criminology
Publication Year2005
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Law, True Crime, Social Science
AuthorRebecca Godfrey
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-049913
Reviews"Under the Bridgeis a fine piece of reportage and a shocking rendering of the tragic end of one young life and the dark and sinister beginnings of others. Godfrey writes with stinging insight and an urgency that moves the story from teenage hush and whisper to the reality of the coroner's office and sad, fatigued cops. The principals are all victims -- of schools and communities and families that don't care -- and perpetrators -- harming one another and themselves in this startling fall from innocence."-- Anthony Swofford, author ofJarhead, "Under the Bridgeis a prodigiously researched and carefully observed account of a senseless murder and its aftermath. Rebecca Godfrey brings a sympathetic imagination and a finely tuned ear for language to bear on a dark subject, with spectacular results.Under the Bridgeis anIn Cold Bloodfor our colder times."-- Evan Cornog, publisher,Columbia Journalism Review, "A stunning book that manages to terrify and enlighten at the same time. No one understands the teenage mind like Rebecca Godfrey. And no one can penetrate its darkest recesses with such insight and compassion."-- Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal364.152/3/0971128
SynopsisIn the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, this work is a gripping, true-crime story of a group of middle school teenagers who beat a female classmate to death, and then tried to cover up the crime. Includes a new Afterword by the author.