Book : True Story Tie-in Edition Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa -

-Titulo Original : True Story Tie-in Edition Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

-Fabricante :

Harper Perennial

-Descripcion Original:

The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the runIn 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under extraordinary pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media. When the phone rang, though, he couldn’t resist. At the other end was a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, whom Finkel congratulated on being the first in what was sure to be a long and bloodthirsty line of media watchdogs. The reporter was puzzled. In Waldport, Oregon, Christian Longo had killed his young wife and three children and dumped their bodies into the bay. With a stolen credit card, he fled south, making his way to Cancun, where he lived for several weeks under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel, journalist for the New York Times. True Story is the tale of a bizarre and convoluted collision between fact and fiction, and a meditation on the slippery nature of truth. When Finkel contacts Longo in jail, the two men begin a close and complex relationship. Over the course of a year, they exchange long letters and weekly phone calls, playing out a cat-and-mouse game in which it’s never quite clear if the pursuer is Finkel or Longo or both. Finkel’s dogged pursuit of the true story pays off only at the end, in the gripping trial scenes in which Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally tells the whole truth. Or so he says. Review “Carefully structured, rigorously reported, and fascinating till the end.” - Esquire“Astute and hypnotically absorbing . . . there’s a burning sincerity and beautifully modulated writing on every page.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)A riveting, disturbing and magnificent merging of two men at their lowest moments. - New York NewsdayCombines crime and intellectual heft...could well become a classic of the genre. - Washington Post Book WorldAlways fascinating, sometimes funny, often very weird . . . simply terrific from the first page to the last. - Jeffrey ToobinA compulsively readable amorality tale. - Boston GlobeA memoir as creepy as it is compelling...expertly and suspensefully told. - Outside magazine From the Back Cover Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jonah Hill & James Franco and Distributed by Fox Searchlight PicturesWhen New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo-who has taken on Finkels identity-his investigation morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse. True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkels relentless pursuit of the shocking truth. About the Author Michael Finkel has written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana.