Book
Compulsion : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781941493021
- ISBN: 1941493025
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Physical Description:
xix, 456 pages ; 23 cm
print - Edition: First Fig Tree Books edition.
- Publisher: Bedford, New York : Fig Tree Books, [2015]
- Copyright: ©1984
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Based on the Leopold and Loeb case of 1924." |
| Summary, etc.: | Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with Nietzsche's idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighborhood. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal 1904-1971 Fiction Loeb, Richard A 1905-1936 Fiction Murderers Illinois Chicago Fiction Murder Illinois Chicago Fiction Chicago (Ill.) Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | PBK FIC Lev (Text) | 33160132461586 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
