![]() ![]() ![]() His true object is to see how a crime engages the collective imagination of a city that is "as remote as Pitcairn Island" and as decadent as Sodom, and whose citizens are so deliriously selfÐ absorbed that it takes a murder to shake them out of their usual preoccupations. The author keeps a discreet distance from his protagonists. ![]() As Berendt reconstructs Danny's death-and follows Williams's staggering four murder trials-he also presents us with a lovingly detailed social anthropology of Savannah, whose past is full of murders that have been covered up and cheerfully gossiped about for decades afterwards. The victim is Danny Hansford, a small-time hustler who, early on a Saturday morning in May 1981, was shot dead by his sometime employer Jim Williams in the latter's exquisitely restored house in Savannah, Georgia. ![]() It is also the portrait of a Southern city in all its charm and eccentricity and a comedy of manners that has pointed things to say about sex and gender, truth and rumor, and superstition and belief. We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at-and talking about-a book that Edmund White has called "the best nonfiction novel since In Cold Blood." Like Truman Capote's masterpiece, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the true story of a murder. The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. ![]()
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