{"product_id":"violette-noziere-sarah-maza-9780520260702","title":"Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris","description":"On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozi鑽e gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced \"medication,\" which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of \"double parricide\" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era--discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Maza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520260708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520260702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.17w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/05\/2011 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/12\/2011 pg. 30","brand":"Sarah Maza","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44717146538239,"sku":"9780520260702","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68f790d2-003b-4c62-a858-b5db7e94f208.jpg?v=1705687152","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/violette-noziere-sarah-maza-9780520260702","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}