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Nothing can hurt you / Nicola Maye Goldberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England : Raven Books, 2020Description: 223 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781526619488
  • 1526619482
  • 9781526619440
  • 152661944X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more questions than it answered. In the aftermath of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to convicted local serial killer John Logan. Others are looking for retribution or explanation: Sara's half sister, stifled by her family's bereft silence about Blake, poses as a babysitter and seeks out her own form of justice, while the teenager Sara used to babysit starts writing to Logan in prison."-- Publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection 813.6 Available T00834112
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Gripping, sharp and sultry' PANDORA SYKES 'Superbly unsettling' GUARDIAN 'A gothic Olive Kitteridge mixed with Gillian Flynn' VOGUE On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. When suspicion falls on the person closest to her - her boyfriend, Blake - the case comes to haunt the friends, family and acquaintances of the couple in strange and unexpected ways. Some look for answers, while others are set on retribution; from the young woman who discovers the body to Sara's half-sister who, years later, seeks out her own form of justice. A propulsive, taut tale of obsession and voyeurism, Nothing Can Hurt You pieces together a chorus of unforgettable voices to explore the far-reaching consequences of one single act of violence.

"On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, his plea of temporary insanity raising more questions than it answered. In the aftermath of his acquittal, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara's body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to convicted local serial killer John Logan. Others are looking for retribution or explanation: Sara's half sister, stifled by her family's bereft silence about Blake, poses as a babysitter and seeks out her own form of justice, while the teenager Sara used to babysit starts writing to Logan in prison."-- Publisher.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

Goldberg's debut, a thoughtful meditation on gender-based violence, focuses on 12 people affected by the gruesome killing of 21-year-old Sara Rose Morgan, a college student who was murdered by her schizophrenic boyfriend, Blake Campbell, in 1997. Beginning with the philandering housewife in Upstate New York who discovered the body, the narrative passes from those who knew Sara to those familiar with Blake, who confessed to the crime, including Blake's future wife and a local reporter who followed Blake's trial and subsequent acquittal on the basis of insanity. A subplot about the trial of a serial killer, John Logan, touches on forgiveness, obsession, the lack of empathy for victims, and the glorification of mass murderers. Goldberg's razor-sharp, intricately constructed tale, with its varied voices, will leave few readers unmoved. Fans of literary thrillers will relish this incisive account of murder and its aftermath. Agent: Julia Masnik, Watkins/Loomis Agency. (June)

Booklist Review

This highly original, somewhat unsettling novel, set in New York State's mid-Hudson region, transports the reader to a very dark place that stands in marked contrast to the celestial glow of those Hudson River School paintings. It more clearly evokes Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow environs. The sad tale of each of its myriad characters is told amid a nearly all-consuming air of the macabre and delivered with sinister wit. The various characters' narratives relate, in one way or another, to the murder of college student Sara Morgan, killed by her boyfriend and left in the woods, where her body is found by a woman whose sanity is already seriously compromised. Despite his confession, a young man is released on a plea of temporary insanity. The confessed killer's acquittal spark Sara's family, friends, and others throughout their upstate community to seek to avenge Sara's death, often by extreme measures. An absorbing read with an astonishing "Did I miss something?" ending.

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