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Unabridged
ISBN:
9780063052765
Content:
" NATIONAL BESTSELLER Defiantly populated with living women . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling. 8212 Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice) A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. . Compassionate and thought-provoking. 8211 BRIT BENNETT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing HalfRecommended by New York Times Book Review Los Angeles Times Washington Post Entertainment Weekly Esquire Good Housekeeping USA Today Buzzfeed Goodreads Real Simple Marie Claire Rolling Stone Business Insider Bustle PopSugar The Millions The Guardian and many more!In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life8212 from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow. Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die,he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women8212 a mother, a sister, a homicide detective8212 we learn the story of Ansel's life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation,Hazel, twin sister to Ansel's wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister's relationship threatens to devour them all,and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes on an Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it simultaneously unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our system of justice and our cultural obsession with crime stories, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men. Poetic and mesmerizing . Powerful, important, intensely human, and filled with a unique examination of tragedy, one where the reader is left with a curious emotion: hope. 8212 USA TODAYA profound and staggering experience of empathy that challenges us to confront what it means to be human in our darkest moments. . I relished every page of this brilliant and gripping masterpiece.8212 ASHLEY AUDRAIN, New York Times bestselling author of The Push "
Content:
Biographisches: " Danya Kukafka is the internationally bestselling author of Girl in Snow . She is a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She works as a literary agent. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from November 29, 2021 This masterly thriller from Kukafka ( Girl in Snow ) opens on death row in a Texas prison, where Ansel Packer is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in 12 hours. However, Packer, who’s killed multiple women across the country, including in Texas and New York, isn’t worried. That surprising attitude is accounted for by the early revelation that he befriended one of the prison guards and is plotting a last-minute escape. Flashbacks, starting with Packer’s birth to a 17-year-old mother in 1973, trace his path from childhood to what seem to be his final hours. He grew up with an abusive father and began killing and mutilating animals when he was three. Those sections alternate with passages from the points of view of his mother, who was also abused, and of a New York State police investigator devoted to getting justice for Packer’s victims. Kukafka skillfully uses the second-person present tense to heighten the drama, and toward the end she makes devastatingly clear the toll taken by Packer’s killings. Megan Abbott fans will be pleased. Agent: Dana Murphy, Book Group. "
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hörbuch
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