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The Fatal Gift of Beauty : The Trials of Amanda Knox by Nina Burleigh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she “vaguely” knew, was arrested and charged with the murder.__The Fatal Gift of Beauty__is award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh’s mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central -Italy’s most beloved cities. When Perugia authorities concluded that the murder was part of a dark, twisted rite—a “sex game”—led by the American with an uncanny resemblance to Perugia’s Madonna, they unleashed a media frenzy from Rome to London to New York and Seattle. The story drew an international cult obsessed with “Foxy Knoxy,” a pretty honor student on a junior year abroad, who either woke up one morning into a nightmare of superstition and misogyny—the dark side of Italy—or parti

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Nina Burleigh
Publisher
Broadway Books
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307588609
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, True Crime, Social Science
Rating
3.48 / 5 (721 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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