A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today. Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder. Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for anyone who dares to look" (Peoria Journal Star), brings his acclaimed mix of page-turning storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical documentation to Fiend -- an unforgettable account from the annals of American crime.
Schechter, Harold
Harold Schechter escreve sobre crimes reais, é especialista em assassinos em série e foi indicado duas vezes ao Edgar Award de melhor livro de true crime. Do autor, a DarkSide® Books já publicou Serial Killers: Anatomia do Mal, Anatomia True Crime dos Filmes, Ed Gein (com Eric Powell), H.H. Holmes Profile e Lady Killers Profile: Belle Gunness. É professor de Literatura Americana e Cultura Popular no Queens College of the City University of New York. Schechter é casado com a poeta Kimiko Hahn e tem duas filhas, a escritora Lauren Oliver e a professora de filosofia Elizabeth Schechter. |
| ISBN | 9780671014483 |
| Autor(a) | Schechter, Harold |
| Editora | Gallery |
| Ano de edição | 2000 |
| Páginas | 320 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
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