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Book Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Author: John Berendt
Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1999 (1994)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 386
Total Page Count: 83,802
Text Number: 240
Read Because: personal enjoyment, borrowed from my parents
Short Review: After a New York magazine writer visits Savannah in the 1980s, his prolonged stay in the city introduces him to a cast of unique characters, from a beautiful black drag queen to a charismatic freeloading tour guide to a prominent antiques dealer—the last of whom throws Savannah into turmoil when he shoots and kills his gay lover. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a nonfiction text with a cast of characters so colorful as to barely be believed, a combination which doesn't make for the most effective storytelling but nonetheless creates a captivating, entertaining book. It's hardly the best thing I've ever read, but I enjoyed and recommend it.
( Long review. )
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
Author: John Berendt
Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1999 (1994)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 386
Total Page Count: 83,802
Text Number: 240
Read Because: personal enjoyment, borrowed from my parents
Short Review: After a New York magazine writer visits Savannah in the 1980s, his prolonged stay in the city introduces him to a cast of unique characters, from a beautiful black drag queen to a charismatic freeloading tour guide to a prominent antiques dealer—the last of whom throws Savannah into turmoil when he shoots and kills his gay lover. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a nonfiction text with a cast of characters so colorful as to barely be believed, a combination which doesn't make for the most effective storytelling but nonetheless creates a captivating, entertaining book. It's hardly the best thing I've ever read, but I enjoyed and recommend it.
( Long review. )
Review posted here on Amazon.com.