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Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781948226684)
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xNPR, One of the Best Books of the Year
A "chilling but fascinating portrait" of a serial killer, and "a must-read for true crime fans" who enjoyed My Dark Places, The Stranger Beside Me, or I'll Be Gone In the Dark (Buzzfeed)
One of Argentina's most innovative writers brings to life the story of a teenager who murdered 4 taxi drivers in 1982 Buenos Aires--without any apparent motive. Over the course of one ghastly week in September 1982, the bodies of 4 taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a 19-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: 4 murders, as exact as they were senseless. More than 30 years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the nebulous era of the crimes and a story full of missing pieces. The result is a book at once hypnotic and unnerving, constructed from forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Melogno himself. Without imposing judgment, Busqued allows for the killer to describe his way of retreating from the world and to explain his crimes as best he can. In his own words, Melogno recalls a visit from Pope Francis, grim depictions of daily life in prison, and childhood remembrances of an unloving mother who drove her son to Brazil to study witchcraft. As these conversations progress, the focus slowly shifts from the crimes themselves, to Melogno's mistreatment and misdiagnosis while in prison, to his current fate: incarcerated in perpetuity despite having served his full sentence. Using these personal interviews, alongside forensic documents and newspaper clippings, Busqued crafted Magnetized, a captivating story about one man's crimes, and a meditation on how one chooses to inhabit the world, or to become absent from it.
Author: Carlos Busqued
ISBN-10: 1948226685
ISBN-13: 9781948226684
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020 pg. 65
Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 111
Booklist 05/01/2020 pg. 9
Shelf Awareness 06/02/2020
A "chilling but fascinating portrait" of a serial killer, and "a must-read for true crime fans" who enjoyed My Dark Places, The Stranger Beside Me, or I'll Be Gone In the Dark (Buzzfeed)
One of Argentina's most innovative writers brings to life the story of a teenager who murdered 4 taxi drivers in 1982 Buenos Aires--without any apparent motive. Over the course of one ghastly week in September 1982, the bodies of 4 taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a 19-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: 4 murders, as exact as they were senseless. More than 30 years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the nebulous era of the crimes and a story full of missing pieces. The result is a book at once hypnotic and unnerving, constructed from forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Melogno himself. Without imposing judgment, Busqued allows for the killer to describe his way of retreating from the world and to explain his crimes as best he can. In his own words, Melogno recalls a visit from Pope Francis, grim depictions of daily life in prison, and childhood remembrances of an unloving mother who drove her son to Brazil to study witchcraft. As these conversations progress, the focus slowly shifts from the crimes themselves, to Melogno's mistreatment and misdiagnosis while in prison, to his current fate: incarcerated in perpetuity despite having served his full sentence. Using these personal interviews, alongside forensic documents and newspaper clippings, Busqued crafted Magnetized, a captivating story about one man's crimes, and a meditation on how one chooses to inhabit the world, or to become absent from it.
Author: Carlos Busqued
ISBN-10: 1948226685
ISBN-13: 9781948226684
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020 pg. 65
Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 111
Booklist 05/01/2020 pg. 9
Shelf Awareness 06/02/2020
By Carlos Busqued
xCarlos Busqued was born in Presidencia Roque S疇nz Pe, Chaco, Argentina, in 1970 and lives in Buenos Aires. His first novel, Under This Terrible Sun, was a finalist for the 2008 Herralde Prize and later adapted for film (El Otro Hermano, Adrian Caetano, 2017). Magnetized is his second book. Samuel Rutter is a writer and translator from Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's, and he is a regular contributor to T, the New York Times style magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
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