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Author: John Safran ,
Tom Bromhead
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 14.70cm
Weight: 0.259kg
ISBN: 9781481520911
ISBN 10: 1481520911
Publication Date: 28 November 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favorite journalists--forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane."" -- ""Jon Ronson, New York Times bestselling author "" ""A murdered white supremacist sparks a remarkable investigation that is anything but straightforward...Weaving a tale that is simultaneously about race, failed systems, money, sex, family, and simple rage, Safran truly did lose a year in Mississippi, and getting lost with him is a joy."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""A sharp sense of humor, wise pacing, and plain, powerful writing, makes this book into a deeper experience than you suspect...A kind of mesmerizing psychosocial-cultural drama...I do not remember a nonfiction book that seemed to bring me so close to its subjects."" -- "" Garden & Gun magazine"" ""Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird."" -- ""Louis Theroux, BBC journalist"" ""Imagine In Cold Blood written not by Capote by an Australian, higher-brow Johnny Knoxville."" -- ""New York Magazine"" ""It's not often that the retelling of a brutal murder is full of laughs but documentarian and debut author Safran is an entertaining writer...weaving a tale that is simultaneously about race, failed systems, money, sex, family, and simple rage."" -- ""Kirkus Review (starred review)"" ""John Safran's captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening, and hilarious. It is enlivened by a swarm of creepy locals and a torrent of astonishing details--such as hedge clippers put to surgical use in the performance of an official autopsy."" -- ""John Berendt, New York Times bestselling author "" ""Originally published in Australia as Murder in Mississippi in 2013, this stranger-than-fiction true crime story finds Safran--a white, Jewish documentary filmmaker from Australia--relocating to Rankin County, Mississippi, to dig deep into the grisly stabbing murder of a sixty-seven-year-old white supremacist in April 2010...The result is a bizarrely unsettling yet often witty book that paints a disturbing picture of the deep South today."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Safran does a great job of looking at the murder from multiple perspectives and brings in his own experience learning about the culture, which is in itself a character."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"""
Author Information
John Safran is an award-winning documentarian and radio storyteller on a wide range of subjects, including the media, religion, and race. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. Tom Bromhead is a uniquely international voice artist. He now lives in Los Angeles, but having grown up in Australia and England, as well as being a musician, has given him an ear for accents and characters. He has appeared in commercials with Jane Lynch and Mena Suvari and performed voices for animation and video games, including Skylanders, Transformers, and Call of Duty. Tom performed as a stand-up comedian, traveling as far afield as Kuala Lumpur, Darwin, and London. He studied at Richmond Drama School in London and Second City in Los Angeles.
