Charmer: A Ladies Man and His Victims

Charmer: A Ladies Man and His Victims

by Jack Olsen
Charmer: A Ladies Man and His Victims

Charmer: A Ladies Man and His Victims

by Jack Olsen

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Overview

This is the story of George, an African American who grew up in a Caucasian suburb of Seattle, where his unaffectionate mother and racial isolation led him to develop an effervescent personality in order to get along. He became a small-time burglar and an accomplished liar--a wisecracking "smoothy" who pretended to be an undercover detective. George made lots of friends, especially within a subculture of giggly young white women who partied endlessly in upscale Seattle clubs during 1989-90. And he murdered three of them, bizarrely mutilating and "staging" their bodies. The drinks, dancing, and deejays--the group pad where George lived with an adoring coterie of feckless college kids--Olsen gives us the quirky details that make the murderer's well-hidden rage and misogyny all the more shocking. As the New York Times wrote, "Like fine cinema verité, [Charmer] mesmerizes us with the sense of watching real life, unaugmented, move before our eyes."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781091400757
Publisher: Independently published
Publication date: 03/25/2019
Pages: 330
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)
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