Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0679429220 Global Overview for this book
Registered by KansasKiwi on 1/5/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by KansasKiwi on Thursday, January 5, 2006

Hardback edition.

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From amazon.com

After discovering in the early 1980s that a super-saver fare to Savannah, Ga., cost the same as an entree in a nouvelle Manhattan restaurant, Esquire columnist Berendt spent the next eight years flitting between Savannah and New York City. The result is this collection of smart, sympathetic observations about his colorful Southern neighbors, including a jazz-playing real estate shark; a sexually adventurous art student; the Lady Chablis (' "What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.' "); the gossipy Married Woman's Card Club; and an assortment of aging Southern belles.

The book is also about the wealthy international antiques dealer Jim Williams, who played an active role in the historic city's restoration--and would also be tried four times for the 1981 shooting death of 21-year-old Danny Handsford, his high-energy, self-destructive house helper. The Williams trials--he died in 1990 of a heart attack at age 59--are lively matches between dueling attorneys fought with shifting evidence, and they serve as both theme and anchor to Berendt's illuminating and captivating travelogue.

Journal Entry 2 by KansasKiwi on Sunday, February 12, 2006
A thoroughly enjoyable read.

Added my husband's TBR pile.

Journal Entry 3 by KansasKiwi on Monday, April 17, 2006
Read and enjoyed by Mr. KansasKiwi.

Journal Entry 4 by KansasKiwi on Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Loaned to a friend.

Journal Entry 5 by KansasKiwi on Thursday, August 31, 2006
Reserved for vibrant-art.

Journal Entry 6 by KansasKiwi on Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Today begins traveling to vibrant-art, via USPS airmail.

Journal Entry 7 by vibrant-art on Monday, October 2, 2006
Wow!
Thank you for this very kind RABCK....!
:)


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