Crossed Over A Murder, a Memoir

Name: Crossed Over A Murder, a Memoir
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ISBN: 9780375713804

ISBN-10: 0375713808

ISBN-13: 9780375713804

Edition: 2002

Authors: Beverly Lowry

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The novelist Beverly Lowry was mourning her son’s death in a hit-and-run accident when she came across a newspaper story about Karla Faye Tucker, the infamous Houston murderer who was then on death row. The article captured Tucker’s innocent beauty, the stunning brutality of her crimes — committed with a pickaxe — and the stories of her spiritual awakening on death row. Struck by these apparent contradictions, Lowry found herself inexplicably drawn to Tucker, who some ten years later would become the first woman to be executed in Texas since 1863. Lowry eventually began to visit Tucker in prison, and over the course of several years she listened to the tragic story of her life before the…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

The author of six novels–and ofCrossed Over, the story of her friendship with Karla Faye Tucker–Beverly Lowry is the director of the Creative Nonfiction Program at George Mason University. She lives in Washington, D.C.