The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox

The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox

Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleighâ€™s mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Amanda Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central Italyâ€™s most beloved cities.

The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercherâ€™s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she â€œvaguelyâ€ knew, was arrested and charged with the murder. When Perugia authorities concluded that the murder was part of a dark, twisted riteâ€”a â€œsex gameâ€â€”led by the American with an uncanny resemblance to Perugiaâ€™s Madonna, they unleashed a media frenzy from Rome to London to New York and Seattle. The story drew an international cult obsessed with â€œFoxy Knoxy,â€ a pretty honor student on a junior year abroad, who either woke up one morning into a nightmare of superstition and misogynyâ€”the dark side of Italyâ€”or participated in something unspeakable.

The investigation begins in the old stone cottage overlooking bucolic olive groves where Kercherâ€™s body was found in her locked bedroom. It winds through the shadowy, arched alleys of Perugia, a city of art that is also a magnet for tens of thousands of students who frequent its bars, clubs, and drug bazaar on the steps of the Duomo. It climaxes in an up-close account of Italyâ€™s dysfunctional legal system, as the trial slowly unfolds at the townâ€™s Tribunale, and the prosecutionâ€™s thunderous final appeal to God before the quivering girl defendant resembles a scene from the Inquisition.Â

To reveal what actually happened on that terrible night after Halloween, Nina Burleigh lived in Perugia, attended the trial, and corresponded with the incarcerated defendants. She also delved deeply into the history, secrets, and customs of Perugia, renowned equally for its Etruscan tunnels, early Christian art, medieval sorcerers, and pagan roots.

A New York Times bestseller, The Fatal Gift of Beauty is the thoughtful, compelling examination of an enduring mystery, an ancient, storied place, and a disquieting facet of Italian culture: an obsession with female eroticism.Â By includingÂ the real story of Rudy Guede, it is also an acute window into the minds and personalities of the accused killers and of the conservative Italian magistrate striving to make sense of an inexplicable act of evil. But at its core is an indelible portrait of Amanda Knox, the strangely childlike, enigmatic beauty, whose photogenic face became the focal point of international speculation about the shadow side of youth and freedom.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-07-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307588593

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2012-07-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307588593

The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox

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