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Mercy : a memoir of medical trauma & true crime obsession
- Title
- Mercy : a memoir of medical trauma & true crime obsession / Marcia Trahan.
- Author
- Trahan, Marcia
- Publication
- Baltimore, MD : Barrelhouse Books, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-127 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 155 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "When Marcia Trahan began watching true crime television, she did so in secret. She felt ashamed by her fascination with these violent stories, and how hungrily she consumed one gruesome tale after another. Only years later did she start to connect the dots between her true crime obsession and the series of invasive medical procedures that had left her feeling victimized and violated. Can the body tell the difference between an attacker's knife and a surgeon's? This is the central question in MERCY, a question that leads Trahan to re-examine her body's reaction to lifesaving medical treatment, the childhood experiences that first made her feel unsafe in her own skin, and the true crime genre's most common tropes. Part searingly honest memoir, part incisive cultural criticism, MERCY explores the appeal of true crime and the way so many of us live our whole lives bracing for an attack."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Contents
- ch. 1 Murder Nights -- ch. 2 Little Mysteries -- ch. 3 The Guy with the Knife -- ch. 4 Like Some Maniac -- ch. 5 Bodies -- ch. 6 Killers and Motives -- ch. 7 The Danger Next Door -- ch. 8 All the Rage -- ch. 9 Invasion -- ch. 10 Broken -- ch. 11 Mercy -- ch. 12 The Surgeon and the Mugger -- ch. 13 Survivors.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-127
- ISBN
- 0988994577
- 9780988994577
- OCLC
- 1144095146
- Author
- Trahan, Marcia, author.
- Title
- Mercy : a memoir of medical trauma & true crime obsession / Marcia Trahan.
- Publisher
- Baltimore, MD : Barrelhouse Books, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-127