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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil



Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a true-crime murder story and a travelogue set in Savannah, Georgia. It follows two narrative strands - one depicting the eccentric characters and rascals of the city, and the other focusing on the murder of Danny Hansford by wealthy antique dealer Jim Williams. The book delves into the dark side of this genteel party town and includes elements... more details
Key Features:
  • True-crime murder story
  • Set in Savannah, Georgia
  • Dual narrative strands


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Author john berendt
Format paperback
ISBN 9780340992852
Manufacturer Unbranded
Model Number 9780340992852
Pages 400
Publication Date 22/08/2009
Publisher Sceptre
Description
The book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a true-crime murder story and a travelogue set in Savannah, Georgia. It follows two narrative strands - one depicting the eccentric characters and rascals of the city, and the other focusing on the murder of Danny Hansford by wealthy antique dealer Jim Williams. The book delves into the dark side of this genteel party town and includes elements such as voodoo, decadent socialites, and a drag queen. It also explores themes of eccentricity and eccentric mores in Savannah.

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.
Voodoo. Decadent socialites packing Lugars. Cotillions. With towns like Savannah, Georgia, who needs Fellini? Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil takes two narrative strands--each worthy of its own book--and weaves them together to make a single fascinating tale. The first is author John Berendt's loving depiction of the characters and rascals that prowled Savannah in the eight years it was his home-away-from-home. "Eccentrics thrive in Savannah," he writes, and proves the point by introducing Luther Diggers, a thwarted inventor who just might be plotting to poison the town's water supply; Joe Odom, a jovial jackleg lawyer and squatter nonpareil; and, most memorably, the Lady Chablis, whom you really should meet for yourself. Then, on May 2, 1981, the book's second story line commences, when Jim Williams, a wealthy antique dealer and Savannah's host with the most, kills his "friend" Danny Hansford. (If those quotes make you suspect something, you should.) Was it self-defense, as Williams claimed--or murder? The book sketches four separate trials, during which the dark side of this genteel party town is well and truly plumbed.

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