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Book Review of Zombie

Zombie
Zombie
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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This was a real page-turner for me, a single afternoon read. It's written in a diary style from the point of view of a very believable childlike predator. I read a lot of true-crime and consider myself well-versed in criminal psychology, and I thought that the restraint practiced by the author in terms of only recording things from the sophomoric emotional state of a stunted and sad murderer. Remarkably well-executed.