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True story : murder, memoir, mea culpa / Michael Finkel.

Title: True story : murder, memoir, mea culpa / Michael Finkel.
Author: Finkel, Michael
Publication: New York : HarperCollins, c2005.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PN4874.F445 A3 2005	Off-site

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312 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In February 2002, a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news: a young, highly intelligent man named Christian Longo, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for killing his entire family, has recently been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity--Michael Finkel's. The next day comes another bit of news: a note from the editors, explaining that Finkel has falsified an article and has been fired. The only journalist the accused murderer will speak with is the real Michael Finkel. As the months until Longo's trial tick away, the two men talk for dozens of hours on the telephone, meet in the jailhouse visiting room, and exchange nearly a thousand pages of handwritten letters. With Longo insisting he can prove his innocence, Finkel strives to uncover what really happened, and his quest becomes a psychological game.--From publisher description.

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Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
Autobiographies.
Études de cas.

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committed to retain

ISBN

006058047X

LCCN

^^2004060788

OCLC

57193224

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Harvard Library