Blood Will Out
The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2015
Summary
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who, one day, would be shockingly unmask…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472115898 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472115899 |
| Author: | Walter Kirn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 19mm |
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The story of Blood Will Out is one of cosmic ironies and jaw-dropping reversals Kirn s persona is captivating funny, pissed off, highly literate, and self-searching… An elegant, classic writer Add the highly readable, intricately told Blood Will Out to the list of great books about the dizzying tensions of the writing life and the maddening difficulty of getting at the truth. - Slate
Fascinating… Blood Will Out is a moral tale about the dangers of social climbing on a rickety ladder for both those trying to scramble up the rungs and those trying to hold it steady below. - The Washington PostIn this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald. - New York Times Book ReviewPage-turning … Invoking Jay Gatsby and The Talented Mr Ripley, [Kirn] shows us the way one individual, by simply dropping names all over the place, going sockless and never carrying a wallet, can get alarmingly far in a country that was founded on self-invention. - National Public RadioThere is no finer guide to the American berserk than Walter Kirn. - Gary ShteyngartWritten with Walter Kirn’s usual stylistic verve, insight, and imagination. - Joyce Carol OatesWalter Kirn’s account of this psychopath is mesmerising and insightful … The trial scenes are grippingly suspenseful, the performances of both prosecuting and defence lawyers thrillingly depicted. - IndependentOne of the most unsettling and compelling memoirs I’ve ever read - Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Walter Kirn
WALTER KIRN is the author of eight books, including Thumbsucker and Up in the Air, both of which have been filmed. He graduated from Princeton in 1983 and has worked as a literary critic and essayist for New York Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, among countless other publications.
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