Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Four years on The New York Times bestseller list.
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.
About the Author
John Berendt is a journalist and former editor of New York magazine. His first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was an international bestseller. He lives in New York.
Format: Paperback | 400 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 | 282g
Publication Date: 06 Oct 1995
Publisher: Random House UK
Imprint: Vintage
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 0099521016
ISBN13: 9780099521013
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including some creasing and scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. There is a minor, faint blotch of discolouring on the bottom-right corner of the title page. No missing pages.