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Twice to the Gallows
Dominique Perrin
其他書名
Bennie Swim and the Benton Ridge Murders
出版
Chapel Street Editions
, 2019-06-11
主題
History / Canada / General
True Crime / Historical
ISBN
1988299241
9781988299242
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iizkxQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"The tragic story of Bennie Swim's crime, and the legal scandal created by the fact that he was hanged twice at the Woodstock Jail has been legendary in New Brunswick folklore ever since it played out in the early 1920s. Now, thanks to Dominique Perrin's extensive research and carefully applied imagination, the complex scope of this story is presented for the first time as a fully developed non-fiction novel. Twice to the Gallows provides a detailed and highly credible account of what brought Bennie Swim to Benton Ridge with a gun in his pocket. The author gives us a gripping account of the crime and its aftermath. He provides a detailed narrative of the legal proceedings and the infamous hangings. But behind and around all this, he creates a portrait of the social and cultural life of the times. The non-fiction novel springs from a unique application of the creative imagination. The task is not to invent characters and drama but to embed the people revealed by research in a narrative that fully conveys the reality of their lives and circumstances. Twice to the Gallows vividly portrays the disastrous consequences that can unfold from an accumulation of seemingly unavoidable circumstances. This is the definition of tragedy as derived from classic Greek drama. In bringing this New Brunswick story from folklore to literature, Dominique Perrin has added something of enduring value to our sense of cultural history."--
