{"product_id":"midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil-1","title":"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil","description":"THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY  An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: \"Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.\" -The New York Times Book Review  30th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author.\r\n\r\nShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.\r\n\r\nIt is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the \"soul of pampered self-absorption\"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. \r\n\r\n Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this true-crime book has become a modern classic.","brand":"John Berendt","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group \/ 28 Jun 1999 \/ B52","offer_id":54011058684245,"sku":"9780679751526","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9780679751526_3b9b5a1d-cfdb-41ef-b1e9-2f0fe90e9893.webp?v=1779810124","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil-1","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}