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Cargando... The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (edición 2018)por Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Some of the writing in this book - part memoir and part a story about an unrelated murder -- is beautiful. But the author uses a device of imagining what people saw and did, which i don't find particularly trustworthy or compelling, and there were some inconsistencies and other issues I had with this work of alleged non-fiction. The author obviously feels some connection between the murder story and events in her own life, given that she was a victim of sexual abuse as a child and the murderer in this book was a pedophile, although the evidence that the murder involved sexual abuse of the child victim is not particularly strong and there is exculpatory evidence never investigated fully. I did not find the weaving together of her story and this murder story well done. A decent read, though. ( ) The Fact of a Body is unlike any book that I have read before; as the subtitle suggests, it is a personal account of one woman’s life that is intertwined with the story of the ghastly murder of a child. It’s so hard to talk about it without giving away any of the specifics, but it is ultimately a story about how the pain and burdens of our past can influence our present and future. I read several reviews of this book before I picked it up and saw it described as “painful” and “difficult.” Those words are completely accurate, in fact, I’d even consider those words soft. This was truly one of the most devastating and heartbreaking books I’ve ever read, but coincidentally one of the most beautifully written. It’s evident that Marzano-Lesnevich crafted each sentence in this book with so much respect and care, especially those regarding Jeremy Guillory. I could go on and on about it, but I cannot give this book enough praise; it’s a cross-genre masterpiece. This book is actualy two stories.The murder of a young boy and the man who murdered him. the author is a lawyer and defends this man in court. Also the author details the story of her sexual abuse by her grandfather. I got a llittle confused at times , as she went back and forth between her story and the death of the young boy. i think maybe if she had divided her stories into two complete sections, rather than back and forth.it would have been less confusing to me. overall though,a sad, interesting book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a young law student working at a law firm specialized in representing death-row inmates when she is entrusted with the defense of a convicted and confessed pedophile. Despite being staunchly anti-death penalty, she is overcome with a rage that demands his death. Shocked by her own feelings, she digs deeper and deeper into the case, and as she unveils the truth her familiarity with some of the facts fills her with a restlessness that leads her to unearth the dark family secrets that are conditioning her perception of the case. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich es una joven estudiante de derecho que trabaja en un despacho especializado en representar a condenados a muerte cuando oye hablar de uno de sus clientes, Ricky Langley, un pedófilo convicto y confeso. Hasta entonces había estado en contra de la pena de muerte, pero en ese momento sus convicciones empiezan a tambalearse. Asombrada por su reacción, se verá obligada a afrontar los duros recuerdos de su niñez. A medida que investiga sobre el caso Langley, su familiaridad con algunos de los hechos la llena de desasosiego y la lleva a desenterrar los oscuros secretos familiares que están condicionando su percepción del mismo. A medio camino entre las memorias y el true crime, Nada más real que un cuerpo es un libro que quita el aliento y que nos hace comprender que en cualquier investigación criminal -en cualquier reconstrucción de un hecho delictivo- es muy difícil distinguir lo real de las conjeturas y que, por tanto, impartir justicia -y perdonar- resulta mucho más complicado de lo que podamos imaginar. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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