Walter Kirn
Autore di Up in the Air
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Walter Kirn (born 1962) is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He graduated from princeton University in 1983. Kirn is the author of eight books, including Up in the Air, which was made into a movie starring George Clooney, and Blood Will Out, a memoir of his friendship with the mostra altro imposter and convicted murderer, Clark Rockefeller. he has also reviewed books for New York Magazine and has written for The New York Times Book Review and New York Times Sunday Magazine, and is a contributing editor of Time magazine. In addition to teaching nonfiction writing at the University of Montana, Kirn was the 2008-09 Vare Nonfiction Writer in Residence at the University of Chicago. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1962-08-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Akron, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Livingston, Montana, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Minnesota, USA - Istruzione
- Princeton University
- Attività lavorative
- literary critic
- Organizzazioni
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly)
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A unique tale of grief and the way you can see signs towards better times in your life during the aftermath of someone integral's death.
An interesting look at "Clark Rockefeller", the con man, murderer and then also kidnapper of his daughter, The author details the years they were 'friends'.
While there were some moments I enjoyed in this book, it didn't pull me in. It's never a good sign when you have the option to read a book for a few minutes or fold laundry, and you go with the laundry option. I'll be interested to see how the movie turns out - this may be one of those cases where it's actually an improvement.
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- 24
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- 2,068
- Popolarità
- #12,429
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 80
- ISBN
- 72
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 3
Kirn does not begin with the murder or even what led to it. Instead, he begins with how he met the murderer, Christian Gerhartsreiter. Except Kirn thought he was meeting Clark Rockefeller, yes, of THE Rockefeller family. Turns out, "Clark Rockefeller" was only one of Gerhartsreiter's many aliases. (Kirn makes, in my opinion, the mistake of calling him Clark throughout the book because, Kirn says, that's how he knew him for a long time.)
Other books have been written about the man known as "Clark Rockefeller," but it looks like Kirn was careful to be different. He begins with his drive from his home in Montana to "Clark's" home in New York to bring him a crippled dog he wanted to adopt. Upon their meeting, "Clark" started dropping several clues that his stories were not true. And Kirn berates himself for not catching the lies at the time, with just being impressed with his new friend. For friends they did become. And Kirn continues to berate himself for that.
But good people tend to trust that most people are good. Most people ARE good. Gerhartsreiter is the exception. I hope Kirn has stopped being angry with himself for being one of the good ones.… (altro)