Spoken in Darkness Hardcover - 1993
by Ann E. Imbrie
This mesmerizing account of the life of a tormented young woman and her death at the hands of a serial killer is told by her former best friend. The haunting, hard-hitting meditation on the fate of women conjures both the insightful storytelling of Margaret Atwood and the unflinching reportage of Susan Brownmiller and Susan Faludi.
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In this mesmerizing account Ann Imbrie recreates the lost life of her childhood friend, Lee Snavely, a beautiful and talented young woman who wound up a drug addict, a prostitute and the victim of a serial killer. They grew up together in a small town in Ohio in the 1960's, "the perfect setting for impossible accidents, disasters that cannot happen, and do". In this world of seemingly placid surfaces, Lee was the stranger Ann was taught to fear. One young woman becomes a literature professor at Vassar; the other spirals downward into a life of poverty and petty crime that leads inexorably to a violent death. Years later, in order to understand her friend's fate, Ann retraces Lee's steps and must confront anew taboos in her own family and in her hometown. Written with the pacing and evocative language of a novel, Spoken in Darkness vividly chronicles the lives of Lee Snavely and the man who murdered her - and deftly dissects the society that bred them both. The result is a work of heartfelt remembrance and harrowing revelation, a stunning exploration and indictment of the many faces of institutional indifference. This haunting, profoundly moving meditation on the dangers women face combines insightful storytelling with brilliant reportage in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. This is a remarkable debut.
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- Title Spoken in Darkness
- Author Ann E. Imbrie
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 259
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hachette Books, New York
- Date 1993-05-14
- ISBN 9781562828424 / 1562828428
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to 17 years
- Grade levels 13 - 12
- Library of Congress subjects Serial murders - Michigan, Snavely, Lee
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92021434
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/1993, Page 1393
- Library Journal, 04/15/1993, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 02/22/1993, Page 0
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