
Killings
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Narrado por:
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Robert Fass
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Calvin Trillin
True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism
"Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violence or police procedure than by the way the fabric of people's lives is suddenly exposed when someone comes to an untimely end. As Trillin says, Killings is "more about how Americans live than about how some of them die."
These stories, which originally appeared in The New Yorker between 1969 and 2010, are vivid portraits of lives cut short. An upstanding farmer in Iowa finds himself drastically changed by a woman he meets in a cocktail lounge. An eccentric old man in Eastern Kentucky is enraged by the presence of a documentary filmmaker. Two women move to a bucolic Virginia county to find peace, only to end up at war over a shared road. Mexican American families in California hand down a feud from generation to generation. A high-living criminal-defense lawyer in Miami acquires any number of enemies capable of killing him.
Stark and compassionate, deeply observed and beautifully written, Killings is "that rarity, reportage as art" (William Geist, The New York Times Book Review).
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It's all about the everyday lives of victims.
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Would you listen to Killings again? Why?
The writing is superb as always.What did you like best about this story?
Just as the author writes about food, there is a tasty morsel in each story.What didn’t you like about Robert Fass’s performance?
Mr. Fass's only flaw is that he is not he is not Calvin Trillin.Any additional comments?
Well worth the listen. Had I not become enamored by the author's storytelling in his own voice, this book would have a 5 star review.Oh, To Hear Calvin's Cadence Once More.
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