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Love and death in the Sunshine State : the story of a crime / Cutter Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 225 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616207304
  • 1616207302
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Convalescence in the Greater Tampa Bay area -- In search of another -- The idea of a woman -- The dark side and the other side -- Impulses diverted -- The worse truth -- Before everything that happened happened -- All the lives -- Furlough -- Ballad of the estranged husband -- Explicable phenomena -- Homecoming -- The confidence of friends -- A disagreement -- What lights a fire -- Laurel and Bay.
Summary: "When the owner of a Florida motel goes missing, a writer who had been a guest at the motel becomes drawn into the investigation, carrying its facts beyond the actual case and into his own life"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 364.1523 W874 Checked out 07/13/2024 33111009176526
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Gripping . . . Cutter Wood subverts all our expectations for the true crime genre." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest--her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car. Then the motel is set on fire; her boyfriend flees the county; and detectives begin digging on the beach of Anna Maria Island. Author Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehler's motel as the search for her gained momentum. Driven by his own need to understand how a relationship could spin to pieces in such a fatal fashion, he began to talk with many of the people living on Anna Maria, and then with the detectives, and finally with the man presumed to be the murderer. But there was only so much that interviews and transcripts could reveal. In trying to understand how we treat those we love, this book, like Truman Capote's classic In Cold Blood , tells a story that exists outside documentary evidence. Wood carries the investigation of Sabine's murder beyond the facts of the case and into his own life, crafting a tale about the dark conflicts at the heart of every relationship.

"When the owner of a Florida motel goes missing, a writer who had been a guest at the motel becomes drawn into the investigation, carrying its facts beyond the actual case and into his own life"-- Provided by publisher.

Convalescence in the Greater Tampa Bay area -- In search of another -- The idea of a woman -- The dark side and the other side -- Impulses diverted -- The worse truth -- Before everything that happened happened -- All the lives -- Furlough -- Ballad of the estranged husband -- Explicable phenomena -- Homecoming -- The confidence of friends -- A disagreement -- What lights a fire -- Laurel and Bay.

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