{"product_id":"violette-noziere-9780520260702","title":"Violette Noziere","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maza explains brilliantly how and why Violette's story-or a culturally acceptable version of her story-grew from being a mere fait divers, or miscellaneous news item, into a nationally staged drama that bound France in schadenfreude-laced fascination near the end of the turbulent and divisive Third Republic. Combining a neatly suspenseful account of Violette's crime and its consequences with a richly layered cultural history ... she skillfully analyzes Violette's transformation from wretched schoolgirl to cultural icon.\" -- Judith Warner New York Times Book Review \"Grittily cinematic.\" -- Megan O'Grady Vogue \"An academic history with a pulpy noir heart.\" Publishers Weekly \"The story itself is so fascinating that general readers interested in crime and mystery will be enthralled.\" -- Marie Marmo Mullaney Library Journal \"Excellent... Maza gorgeously weaves together social history, crime culture, gender theory, and thorough research.\" -- Oline Eaton New Books In Biography \"[An] excellent new biography... Maza gorgeously weaves together social history, crime culture, gender theory, and thorough research.\" -- Oline Eaton New Books In Biography \"A true-life detective tale set not amid the glamour and romance of a well-touristed Paris but in a secret city that runs thick with the lives of the forgotten and the abandoned.\" -- David Kennedy Jones T: The New York Times Style Magazine \"Compelling... A brief review cannot convey the elegance and persuasiveness of Maza's version of this famous case.\" -- Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University Journal Of Modern History A well-researched and thoroughly readable account of French culture as revealed in a generally forgotten murder case.\" -- Jaime O'Neill Chico News \u0026amp; Review \"The trial captivated France, and readers will be just as captivated by Maza's study of Noziere and the culture of interwar France.\" -- Eric Feil Dan's Hamptons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgments  Introduction  1. A Neighborhood in Paris 2. Interwar Girlhoods 3. Violette's Family Romance 4. A Crime in Late Summer 5. The Accusation 6. Letters to the Judge 7. A Culture of Crime 8. A Water Lily on a Heap of Coal 9. The Trial 10. Afterlives  Conclusion  Notes Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402840482135,"sku":"9780520260702","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520260702.jpg?v=1730481657","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violette-noziere-9780520260702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}