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On the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Kitty Genovese transcends the mythology of the tragic story and the famous association with the bystander effect.

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"Kevin Cook takes the story apart and puts it back together again. His punchy account of this famous event reveals that almost everything we think we know about it is wrong." -- Daniel Finkelstein, Christmas Round-Ups 2014 - The Sunday Times
"Cook is [an] adept storyteller." -- The New Yorker
"...well-written and often gripping book..." -- The Times
"A fully-realized portrait of Kitty... Readers won't forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote." -- The Boston Sunday Globe
"A grim and fascinating history and discussion of the bystander effect... this book asks hard questions of human nature." -- Diva
"...the book is brilliantly written, a veritable prose docudrama, full of suspense and tension, despite known outcomes." -- Human Givens

Kitty Genovese The Murder the Bystanders the

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 14 April 2015
      ISBN-13 9780393350579
      978-0393350579
      ISBN-10 0393350576
      Also in:
      True crime

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      On the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Kitty Genovese transcends the mythology of the tragic story and the famous association with the bystander effect.

      Trade Review
      "Kevin Cook takes the story apart and puts it back together again. His punchy account of this famous event reveals that almost everything we think we know about it is wrong." -- Daniel Finkelstein, Christmas Round-Ups 2014 - The Sunday Times
      "Cook is [an] adept storyteller." -- The New Yorker
      "...well-written and often gripping book..." -- The Times
      "A fully-realized portrait of Kitty... Readers won't forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote." -- The Boston Sunday Globe
      "A grim and fascinating history and discussion of the bystander effect... this book asks hard questions of human nature." -- Diva
      "...the book is brilliantly written, a veritable prose docudrama, full of suspense and tension, despite known outcomes." -- Human Givens

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