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A novelist struggling to cope with the death of her own son interviews Karla Faye Tucker, a woman who savagely murdered a Houston couple with a pickax and awaits her fate on Death Row. Reprint.
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A tremendous literary achievement . Lowry s power of empathy is astonishing . Mesmerizing. Los Angeles Times Book Review
Immensely disturbing offers us a vision of other lives lives that, like it or not, we are unable to forget. Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review
An extraordinary book about redemption, about how one superlatively messed up girl went straight. Just in time to die. Anna Quindlen, The Denver Post
Undeniably gripping. No reader is going to forget it overnight. The Houston Post
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"A tremendous literary achievement.... Lowry's power of empathy is astonishing.... Mesmerizing."-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Immensely disturbing...offers us a vision of other lives-lives that, like it or not, we are unable to forget."-Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary book...about redemption, about how one superlatively messed up girl...went straight. Just in time to die."-Anna Quindlen, The Denver Post "Undeniably gripping. No reader is going to forget it overnight." --The Houston Post
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Immensely disturbing offers us a vision of other lives lives that, like it or not, we are unable to forget. Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review
An extraordinary book about redemption, about how one superlatively messed up girl went straight. Just in time to die. Anna Quindlen, The Denver Post
Undeniably gripping. No reader is going to forget it overnight. The Houston Post
"
"A tremendous literary achievement.... Lowry's power of empathy is astonishing.... Mesmerizing."-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Immensely disturbing...offers us a vision of other lives-lives that, like it or not, we are unable to forget."-Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary book...about redemption, about how one superlatively messed up girl...went straight. Just in time to die."-Anna Quindlen, The Denver Post "Undeniably gripping. No reader is going to forget it overnight." --The Houston Post
Beverly Lowry is the author of six novels. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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- PublisherGrand Central Pub
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0446365106
- ISBN 13 9780446365109
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Book Description Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First edition. Paperback. On June 13, 1983, in a Houston apartment a man and woman were savagely pickaxed to death. In the weeks that followed, 23yr. old Karla Faye Tucker boasted that she was the pickaxe killer, and that she had been sexually aroused during the murder. At her trial she did not deny her guilt. Her sentence was death. But beyond the shocking headlines was another story waiting to be revealed.a story of mothers and children, loss and redemption, crime and punishment.the true story of Karla Faye Tucker that the author, grappling with the death of her own teenage son, uncovered when she went to meet Karla Faye on Death Row. 291pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers. Seller Inventory # 12780
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