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Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story by John Berendt is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewJohn Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame. From Publishers WeeklyAfter discovering in the early 1980s that a super-saver fare to Savannah, Ga., cost the same as an entree in a nouvelle Manhattan restaurant, Esquire columnist Berendt spent the next eight years flitting between Savannah and New York City. The result is this collection of smart, sympathetic observations about his colorful Sout

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Author
John Berendt
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780679751526
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
True Crime, Fiction, Crime
Rating
3.9 / 5 (170,878 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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