Killings / Calvin Trillin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trillin, Calvin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--United States--Case studies.

Murder.

United States.

Murder victims--United States.

Local Subjects:

Murder victims--United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

xviii, 293 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Expanded edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2017]

Summary:

"'Reporters love murders,' Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. 'In a pinch, what the lawyers call "wrongful death" will do, particularly if it's sudden.' Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violence or police procedure than by the way the fabric of people's lives is suddenly exposed when someone comes to an untimely end"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

A stranger with a camera

I've always been clean

Jim, Tex, and the one-armed man

Sergei Kourdakov

You always turn your head

Harvey St. Jean had it made

Partners

Melisha Morganna Gibson

Family problems

Todo se paga

It's just too late

Called at Rushton

Resettling the Yangs

Among friends

The mystery of Walter Bopp

A father-son operation

I've got problems

Right-of-way

Rumors around town

Outdoor life

At the train bridge

Covering the cops.

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ticknor & Fields, in 1984, in different form. The pieces in this book first appeared in The New Yorker"--Title-page verso.

"An expanded edition of the classic book on life and death in America"--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780399591402

0399591400

OCLC:

980351230