Review:
Praise for "God'll Cut You Down"
"A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane." "--"Jon Ronson, bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test" and "Them"
"Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird." --Louis Theroux, BBC journalist
Praise for "God'll Cut You Down"
"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, bestselling author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
"A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane." --Jon Ronson, bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test" and "Them"
"Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird." --Louis Theroux, BBC journalist
Praise for "God'll Cut You Down"
"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, bestselling author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
"A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane." --Jon Ronson, bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test" and "Them"
"Imagine "In Cold Blood" written not by Capote by an Australian, higher-brow Johnny Knoxville." -- Boris Kachka, "New York" Magazine
"If you enjoyed" In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, and have been drawn to other true-crime books, then you will probably devour this book.... [Safran's] approach, mixed with a sharp sense of humor, wise pacing, and plain, powerful writing, makes this book into a deeper experience than you suspect... That deeper experience comes from Safran's refusal to quickly analyze according to traditional crime-solving plotlines.... As a more complex picture of the two men's relationships to other people and each other emerges, we follow breathlessly into a kind of mesmerizing psychosocial-cultural drama.... [O]n each reading, it gained a kind of substance--it somehow grew--until I felt it resembled a house of rooms. It gained a personality. In the end, I felt that I knew, personally, Vincent McGee and Richard Barrett... I do not remember a nonfiction book that seemed to bring me so close to its subjects." -- "Garden & Gun" magazine
"Safran's book will make readers chuckle, fidget, and turn page after page wondering what will happen next as the author looks to find the truth about the murder of a white supremacist by a black man in the deep South.... This true crime book will stick with readers. 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. For fans of true crime, Southern tales, and books similar to Capote's ["In Cold Blood"] and John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."" --"Library Journa"l, STARRED review
"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, Safran truly did lose a year in Mississippi, and getting lost with him is a joy." --"Kirkus," STARRED review
"[T]his stranger-than-fiction true crime story finds Safran--a white, Jewish documentary filmmaker from Australia--relocating to Rankin County, Miss., to dig deep into the grisly stabbing murder of a 67-year-old white supremacist in April 2010... [A] bizarrely unsettling, yet often witty book that paints a disturbing picture of the deep South today." --"Publishers Weekly"
"John Safran's "God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi "is to true crime what "The Daily Show" is to nightly news. There's much more mirth than you might expect given the grave matter, and it sublimely unearths some buried truths." --"Kirkus"
"Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird." --Louis Theroux, BBC journalist
Praise for "God'll Cut You Down"
"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, bestselling author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
"A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane." --Jon Ronson, bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test" and "Them"
"Imagine "In Cold Blood" written not by Capote by an Australian, higher-brow Johnny Knoxville." -- Boris Kachka, "New York" Magazine
"If you enjoyed" In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, and have been drawn to other true-crime books, then you will probably devour this book.... [Safran's] approach, mixed with a sharp sense of humor, wise pacing, and plain, powerful writing, makes this book into a deeper experience than you suspect... That deeper experience comes from Safran's refusal to quickly analyze according to traditional crime-solving plotlines.... As a more complex picture of the two men's relationships to other people and each other emerges, we follow breathlessly into a kind of mesmerizing psychosocial-cultural drama.... [O]n each reading, it gained a kind of substance--it somehow grew--until I felt it resembled a house of rooms. It gained a personality. In the end, I felt that I knew, personally, Vincent McGee and Richard Barrett... I do not remember a nonfiction book that seemed to bring me so close to its subjects." -- "Garden & Gun" magazine
"Safran's book will make readers chuckle, fidget, and turn page after page wondering what will happen next as the author looks to find the truth about the murder of a white supremacist by a black man in the deep South.... This true crime book will stick with readers. 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. For fans of true crime, Southern tales, and books similar to Capote's ["In Cold Blood"] and John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."" --"Library Journa"l, STARRED review
"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, Safran truly did lose a year in Mississippi, and getting lost with him is a joy." --"Kirkus," STARRED review
"[T]his stranger-than-fiction true crime story finds Safran--a white, Jewish documentary filmmaker from Australia--relocating to Rankin County, Miss., to dig deep into the grisly stabbing murder of a 67-year-old white supremacist in April 2010... [A] bizarrely unsettling, yet often witty book that paints a disturbing picture of the deep South today." --"Publishers Weekly"
"John Safran's "God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi "is to true crime what "The Daily Show" is to nightly news. There's much more mirth than you might expect given the grave matter, and it sublimely unearths some buried truths." --"Kirkus"
"Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird." --Louis Theroux, BBC journalist
Praise for "God'll Cut You Down"
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, bestselling author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
"A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane." Jon Ronson, bestselling author of "The Psychopath Test" and "Them"
"Imagine"In Cold Blood"written not by Capote by an Australian, higher-brow Johnny Knoxville." -- Boris Kachka, "New York" Magazine
"If you enjoyed" In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, and have been drawn to other true-crime books, then you will probably devour this book.... [Safran's] approach, mixed with a sharp sense of humor, wise pacing, and plain, powerful writing, makes this book into a deeper experience than you suspect... That deeper experience comes from Safran's refusal to quickly analyze according to traditional crime-solving plotlines.... As a more complex picture of the two men's relationships to other people and each other emerges, we follow breathlessly into a kind of mesmerizing psychosocial-cultural drama.... [O]n each reading, it gained a kind of substance--it somehow grew--until I felt it resembled a house of rooms. It gained a personality. In the end, I felt that I knew, personally, Vincent McGee and Richard Barrett... I do not remember a nonfiction book that seemed to bring me so close to its subjects." -- "Garden & Gun" magazine
Safran s book will make readers chuckle, fidget, and turn page after page wondering what will happen next as the author looks to find the truth about the murder of a white supremacist by a black man in the deep South . This true crime book will stick with readers. 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. For fans of true crime, Southern tales, and books similar to Capote s ["In Cold Blood"] and John Berendt s "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." "Library Journa"l, STARRED review
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, Safran truly did lose a year in Mississippi, and getting lost with him is a joy. "Kirkus," STARRED review
[T]his stranger-than-fiction true crime story finds Safran a white, Jewish documentary filmmaker from Australia relocating to Rankin County, Miss., to dig deep into the grisly stabbing murder of a 67-year-old white supremacist in April 2010 [A] bizarrely unsettling, yet often witty book that paints a disturbing picture of the deep South today. "Publishers Weekly"
"John Safran s "God ll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi "is to true crime what The Daily Show is to nightly news. There s much more mirth than you might expect given the grave matter, and it sublimely unearths some buried truths." "Kirkus"
"Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird." Louis Theroux, BBC journalist
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About the Author:
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. This is his first book.
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