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Best American Crime Writing: 2004 (Best American Crime Writing)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.973
EAN: 9780375421655
ISBN: 0375421653
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: August 10, 2004
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Studio: Pantheon
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Editorial Review:
A riveting new anthology series—a year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism.Scouring hundreds of publications, guest editor Nicholas Pileggi, and series editors Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation of the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime reporting. Ranging in style from Mark Singer’s ribald “The Chicken Warriors,” an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting, to David McClintick’s harrowing “Fatal Bondage,” the tale of a grifter with an attraction to sado-masochistic sex and serial killing, this collection showcases the wide variety of writing in the field today.Criminal behavior itself also falls into a spectrum, from the isolated and idiosyncratic misdeed, such as that documented in Skip Hollandsworth’s “The Killing of Alydar,” an investigation into the greed that spawned the killing of a thoroughbred horse, to the large-scale malignancies that can shake an entire nation, as recounted in “The Day of the Attack,” Nancy Gibbs’s sobering retelling of the events of September 11, 2001. Good crime writing is never just about the crime or the criminals, so this collection also has moving and often troubling portraits of the victims, their families, and the communities in which they lived, and, in pieces such as D. Graham Burnett’s “Anatomy of a Verdict,” a reminder of the immensely difficult process that is coming to judgment.Entertaining, at times alarming, Best American Crime Writing is compelling evidence of the furthest reaches of human behavior.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Delivers as Promised
As the title says, enclosed in the pages of this book is the best American Crime Writing of the year. The stories cover a wide range of criminals, their crimes and the individuals victimized. By including different authors, the styles of each contrast nicely as each weaves his or her own tale. Each story and storyteller is unique. I have read the 2002 and the 2003 edition and this book lives up to its predecessors' lofty standards.
Rating:  - "Writing So Good, It's Almost Criminal..."
Best American Crime Writing: 2004 Edition, $14.00 US, is an anthology of twenty crime stories gathered by Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook. These yarns were originally published in magazines -- such as Atlanta, Details, GQ, and The New Yorker -- that were sold in 2003. Some are similar in topic, but each story is extremely unique as told from the vantage point of its author. Some big name writers happened to appear in this issue, such as James Ellroy, Jon Krakauer, and Scott Turow, but I prefer the ... Read More
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