No Saints in Kansas
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2017
نویسنده
Eva Kaminskyناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781501967610
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
October 9, 2017
In this odd take on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, a fictional friend to victim Nancy Clutter launches her own investigation to solve the Clutter family murder. Narrator Carly Fleming’s difficult relationship with Nancy, whom she secretly tutored but never quite befriended, and her status as a New York City transplant to insular Holcomb, Kans., make her an outsider from the start. Eventually, her prying also turns her into a suspect. Carly’s murky emotional connection to the Clutters makes her a puzzling choice to focus on, as well as an unreliable narrator who is trying awfully hard to get Nancy to like her. Debut author Brashear assembles all the right elements for a gripping murder mystery, but the treatment of the brutal true crime through such a hazy fictional lens borders on crass, even taking into account criticisms of the truthfulness of Capote’s account in In Cold Blood. Drawing in real-life characters, including Capote and a pre-presidential John F. Kennedy as a convenient friend of the Flemings, further muddies the waters between fact and fiction. Ages 14–up. Agent: John Cusick, Folio Literary Management.
This YA fiction retells the events in Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD from an adolescent's point of view. Narrator Eva Kaminsky's delivery is a terrific fit for the voice of high school student Carly Fleming, an ex-New Yorker who has moved to Kansas. The horrific murder of the Clutter family in 1959 gained national attention, drawing newspaper journalists and authors Capote and Harper Lee to the small town of Holcomb. Kaminsky skillfully portrays outsider Carly, who is ostracized and bullied by classmates for spending her time tutoring Nancy Clutter, and then for supporting Nancy's boyfriend, Bobby, the only suspect in the murders. While some of Carly's investigative activities stretch credibility, Brashear's novel will bring a piece of history closer to today's teens, perhaps encouraging them to read Capote's account. S.J.H. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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