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The Dead Girl Author: This stirring elegy for the author's murdered best friend has been praised by such writers as Harold Brodkey, Helen Vendler, and Harold Bloom--writers whom one doesn't usually associate with the true crime genre. Indeed, this is not a typical true crime book. The focus is not so much on the crime itself, as on the character of the murdered Asian... more »
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Back Cover: Roberta Lee, a lovely Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one November Sunday in 1984 wiht her lover Bradley Page. Brad came back alone, Roberta, sometimes volatileand moody, had run off on her own, he said. Five weeks later, her battered body was found on a bed of branches in a shallow grave. Within hours, Page had confessed to the murder of Roberta Lee-- then recanted. The story of the dead girl had begun....
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From the back cover" Roberta Lee, a lovely Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one November Sunday in 1984 with her lover Bradley Page. Brad came back alone...five weeks later, her battered body was found on a bed of branches in a shallow grave...."
YES, I have to go with Tracy on this one. Can't put it down once you start it. Only took me 2 days to finish. Jen A. Quincy MA
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