The Dead Girl

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Some crinkling to some pages. Berkeley student Roberta Lee went running with her lover Bradley Page in 1984. Page came back alone and Roberta's battered body was found five weeks ... later. Within hours, Page confessed to Roberta's murder--and then recanted. Written by Roberta's closest friend, this haunting, multi-layered work is a superb collage of memory, loss, and redemption. Illustrated throughout. Movie rights have been optioned by Warner. Read more Show Less

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Thernstrom gives an account of her best friend, UC-Berkeley student Roberta ``Bibi'' Lee, murdered in 1984 while jogging with her boyfriend, Bradley Page. stet ``An innovative if self-indulgent approach to the true crime genre,'' said PW. ``Putatively about Bibi, her death, the investigation and Page's murder conviction . . . the book is really a coming-of-age story about Thernstrom herself,'' said PW . Illustrated. (Dec.)
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Roberta Lee, a 20-year-old Berkeley student and the author's best friend, disappeared following a jog with her lover, Bradley Page, in 1984. When Roberta's corpse was found five weeks later, Page confessed to her murder--and then recanted. Thernstrom, now a creative writing teacher, has not written the typical true crime book. She focuses on her thoughts and feelings--intense, questioning, metaphorical--about her life and her unhappiness, as well as the death of Roberta. The case is not neglected--Thernstrom attended Page's trial--but while it is difficult to categorize, this book is essentially a coming-of-age story. Although not for everyone, the book's most appreciative audience likely will resemble its author: young, literary-minded, and deeply sensitive to the subtleties of meaning and the complexities of motivation. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/90.-- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
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  • ISBN-13: 9780671663322
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Publication date: 10/15/1990
  • Pages: 432

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