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Kitty Genovese

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Description for Kitty Genovese Hardcover. At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPK; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.

In 1964 a woman was stabbed to death in front of her home in New York, a murder The New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change". The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered in sight of thirty-eight neighbours who "didn’t want to get involved". Her sensational case provoked an outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the "Bystander Effect".

On the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Kevin Cook presents the real Genovese. "Gripping" (The New York Times) and "Provocative" (The Wall Street Journal), Kitty Genovese evokes the gay and lesbian underground of Greenwich Village with feeling and detail. Cook reconstructs the crime, and drawing on lost documents and new interviews, explores the legacy of the case. His account of what happened is the most accurate and chilling to date.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393239287
SKU
V9780393239287
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Ref
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About Kevin Cook
A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommy's Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for Kitty Genovese
"...well-written and often gripping book..."
The Times "A grim and fascinating history and discussion of the bystander effect... this book asks hard questions of human nature."
Diva "Cook’s take on events is intelligent, superbly researched and truly unsettling, making this one of the best true crime books I’ve read in the last few years."
The Sunday Herald "Kevin Cook takes the story apart and puts it back together again. His punchy account of this famous event reveals that almost everything we think we know about it is wrong."
Daniel Finkelstein, Christmas Round-ups 2014 - The Times

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