Chicago With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It

Name: Chicago With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It
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ISBN: 9780809321292

ISBN-10: 0809321297

ISBN-13: 9780809321292

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thomas Pauly, Maurine Watkins

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Jake Callahan, exhalting in his great fortune at finding the story of "the most beautiful murderess," precisely characterizes Watkins’s satirical take on murder and its aftermath—a view she formed while covering two similar and equally sensational murder trials for theChicago Tribune. Watkins opens this comic drama with a brutal dramatization of the same situation the women in her articles faced: a vengeful Roxie has slain her lover for mistreating her. And then the fun begins. A boring, run-of-the-mill murderess until her frank confession creates an opportunity for profit, Roxie begins a transformation to rival that of Pygmalion’s statue. She becomes, as Thomas H. Pauly points out in…

Book details

List price: $17.50
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English