Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire`s Wife, and the Murder of the Century, Montillo, Roseanne ; Barron, Mia
Автор: Montillo, Roseanne Название: Deliberate cruelty ISBN: 1982153733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982153731 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 22000.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Spanning five decades and set at the highest heights of Manhattan`s cafe and literary societies, the story of two murders, two suicides, and the strangely intertwined fates of socialite Ann Woodward and literary superstar Truman Capote.
Supremely creepy. . . . As thrilling as it is disturbing. Boston Globe
In 1871, young children were disappearing from Boston s working-class neighborhoods. The few who returned told desperate tales of being taken to the woods and tortured by a boy not much older than themselves. The police were skeptical these children were from poor families, so their testimony was easily discounted. And after the Great Boston Fire of 1872 reduced much of downtown to rubble, the city had more pressing concerns. Finally, when the police apprehended Jesse Pomeroy for the crimes, he, like any twelve-year-old, was sent off to reform school. Little thought was given to the danger he might pose to society, despite victims chilling reports of this affectless Boy Torturer.
Sixteen months later, Jesse was released in the care of his mother, and within months a ten-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy went missing, their mutilated bodies later discovered by police. This set off a frantic hunt for Pomeroy, who was now proclaimed America s youngest serial killer. When he was captured and brought to trial, his case transfixed the nation, and two public figures Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes each probed the depths of Pomeroy s character in a search for the meaning behind his madness.
Roseanne Montillo takes us inside those harrowing years, as a city reeling from great disaster reckoned with the moral quandaries posed by Pomeroy s spree."
Автор: Montillo Roseanne Название: Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb ISBN: 031648959X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316489591 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 16180.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bomb meets Code Girls in this fascinating narrative nonfiction look at the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the Atomic Bomb, and the moral implications of their work.
Автор: Montillo Roseanne Название: Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb ISBN: 0316489603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316489607 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 8350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bomb meets Code Girls in this fascinating narrative nonfiction look at the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the Atomic Bomb, and the moral implications of their work.
Автор: Roseanne Montillo; illustrated by Jordan Andrew Ca Название: First Women of Medicine ISBN: 1250842697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250842695 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts how--at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution--Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.
With true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate in macabre research--human reanimation--The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's horror classic.
