Linda Wolfe

Wasted (eBook, ePUB)

Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Notable Book: Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe delivers a riveting, comprehensive account of the Preppie Murder, a crime that shocked a city and a nation. It was called the Preppie Murder-a killer and a victim who were attractive, smart, privileged teenagers. On an August night in 1986 Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. Linda Wolfe, hailed by critic John Leonard as "one of our best reporters," goes beyond the headlines and media hype to re-create a story of privilege and excess, sex and partying-of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug user who'd been expelled from the best schools. It's all here, from the initial police investigation, during which Chambers claimed Levin died accidentally during rough sex, to the media frenzy of the courtroom, where Chambers took an eleventh-hour plea. Wolfe also delivers heartbreaking portraits of Levin's grief-stricken father, Chambers's in-denial mother, and the women who dated the accused Preppie Killer while he was out on bail. A finalist for the 1990 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Wasted also powerfully depicts the freewheeling 1980s society that spawned a generation steeped in violence and the fatal impulses that drove Robert Chambers to kill.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497637405
• Artikelnr.: 44362682

Autorenporträt

Linda Wolfe (1932-2020) was the author of five true crime books: The Professor and the Prostitute and Other True Tales of Murder and Madness, Love Me to Death, Double Life, The Murder of Dr. Chapman,and Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder, an Edgar Award nominee and aNew York TimesNotable Book. She was also the author of My Daughter, Myself, a memoir; The Literary Gourmet, a classic cookbook; and Private Practices, a novel.Wolfe's articles and essays appeared in a wide variety of magazines, among them Vanity Fair, the New York TimesMagazine, and New Yorkmagazine, of which she was a contributing editor.