Книга: Walter Kirn «Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade»
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn-then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage-set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer. Kirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible... Издательство: "Corsair" (2014) Формат: 155x235, 240 стр.
ISBN: 978-1-47211-935-3 Купить за 759.5 руб на Озоне |
Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn is an American
He has also reviewed books for
In addition to teaching nonfiction writing at the
Kirn's family joined
Kirn married Maggie McGuane, a model and the daughter of actress
References
External links
* Larry Weissman, [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1099/kirn/interview.html Interview with Walter Kirn] , Random House.
* Terry Gross, " [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964686&ft=1&f=1033 Writer Walter Kirn, on a 'Mission to America'] ", "Fresh Air", NPR.
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking Essay: "The Autumn of the Multi-Taskers"] , "The Atlantic Monthly", November 2007.
Источник: Walter Kirn
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