Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Registered by avanta7 on 6/7/2003
2 journalers for this copy...
Yard sale purchase intended for release. Trade paperback. Cover synopsis:
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex." These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed -- and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired -- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.
And it was a pretty good movie too! I loved this book and read it in almost one sitting several years ago (before the movie was released). Laugh-out-loud funny in places. The Southern eccentric is almost a clichéd character, but this book breathes new life into the tired stereotype. Read it. It's so much fun!
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex." These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed -- and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired -- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.
And it was a pretty good movie too! I loved this book and read it in almost one sitting several years ago (before the movie was released). Laugh-out-loud funny in places. The Southern eccentric is almost a clichéd character, but this book breathes new life into the tired stereotype. Read it. It's so much fun!
Promised to savannahblue, which is as it should be for a book set in Savannah.
Mailed to savannahblue today. Greetings from Little Rock, Arkansas!
thank you so much, avanta7! very kind of you to share this with me! will read ASAP.
this lovely book has been on the shelf for a long while. posting to www.paperbackswap.com
