Research Catalog

Title

Visiting hours : a memoir of friendship and murder / Amy Butcher.

Author

Butcher, Amy, 1987-

Publication

New York : Blue Rider Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xvi, 249 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Emily Silverstein. While he was awaiting trial, psychiatrists concluded that he had suffered an acute psychotic break. Although severely affected by Kevin's crime, Amy remained devoted to him as a friend, believing that his actions were the direct result of his untreated illness. Over time, she became obsessed-determined to discover the narrative that explained what Kevin had done. The tragedy deeply shook her concept of reality, disrupted her sense of right and wrong, and dismantled every conceivable notion she'd established about herself and her relation to the world. Eventually realizing that she would never have the answers, or find personal peace, unless she went after it herself, Amy returned to Gettysburg-the first time in three years since graduation-to sift through hundred of pages of public records: mental health evaluations, detectives' notes, inventories of evidence, search warrants, testimonies, and even Kevin's own confession"--

Subject

• Schaeffer, Kevin
• Butcher, Amy, 1987-
• Murderers > Pennsylvania > Biography
• Murder > Pennsylvania
• Friendship
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Friends

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780399172076 (hardback)
• 0399172076 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2014040712

OCLC

901374322

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library