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Book · 1984 · Nonfiction

Killings

Calvin Trillin
Random House Trade Paperbacks (Penguin Random House) · 320 pages
★ 4.7 editorial score

One killing per chapter, in towns no reporter usually visits, including a Kentucky landowner who shot a documentary filmmaker for trespassing. Trillin cares how these Americans lived, not how they died.

Genre
ReportingTrue crimeInvestigative journalism
Medium
Essays
Subject
MurderSmall townAmerican cultureJustice
Setting
United States
Time
1984Depicts 1970s

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