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Lizzie
Lizzie | Evan Hunter
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Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had doneShe gave her father forty-one.In recreating the events of that fateful day, August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the extraordinary circumstances which led up to them, Evan Hunter spins a breathtakingly imaginative tale of an enigmatic spinster whose secret life would eventually force her to the ultimate confrontation with her stepmother and father.Here is Lizzie Borden freed of history and legend a full-bodied woman of hot blood and passion, fighting against her prim New England upbringing, surrendering to the late-Victorian hedonism of London, Paris and the Riviera, yet fated to live out her meager life in a placid Massachusetts town.Seething with frustration and rage, a prisoner of her appetites, Lizzie Borden finally snapped . . . but how and why she was led into her uncompromising acts is at the heart of this enthralling, suspenseful work of the imagination.Alternating the actual inquest and trial of Lizzie Borden with an account of her head-spinning, seductive trip to Europe, Evan Hunter portrays with a master craftsman's art the agony of a passionate woman and the depths of a murdering heart."
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ferskner
Lizzie | Evan Hunter
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@MoniqueReads305 the package is here and I love it! I adore Halloween so this was a fantastic treat. Thank you!!! @MinDea @TricksyTails #feedareader

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SarahMillerBooks
Lizzie | Evan Hunter
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Borden fiction binge, part 5. #lizzieborden

LeahBergen I read this years ago! 👍🏻 7y
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Mindyrecycles
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A different take on Lizzie Borden's possible motive. I really liked it in high school but haven't read it recently. #lgbtqpride #riotgrams

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ApoptyGina69
Lizzie | Evan Hunter
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An awesome #fictionnonfictionpairing! "The Untold Story" compiles news articles and court documents into a manageable narrative, while "Lizzie" just has at it, recreating her life and times, painting her as a woman fraught with demons, fighting against her prim. Ew England upbringing. #seasonsreadings2016

LeahBergen LOVE IT. I've read both of them! ❤️ 7y
GirlMeetsBook I live about 20 minutes from her house, and can't bring myself to read much about her. I'm sure we're all haunted over here! 😂 7y
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