The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628723246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, who at the time of the movie’s release was publicly outed at Juliet Hulme, one of the murderers. A new light was now cast, not only on Anne’s life but also on her novels, which feature gruesome and violent deaths and confront dark issues, including infanticide and incest.Acclaimed literary biographer Joanne Drayton was given unparalleled access to Anne Perry, her friends, relatives, colleagues, and archives to complete this book. A New York Times Best Seller!In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The Search for Anne Perry is a gripping account of a life, and provides understanding of the girl Anne was, the adult she became, her compulsion to write, and her view of the world.. The movie launched Jackson’s international career. She has sold 25 million books worldwide and published in 15 different languages, yet she will now forever be known as a murderer who became a writer of murder stories. Anne Perry’s books deal with miscarriages of justice, family secrets exposed, punishment, redemption, and forgiveness, themes made all the more poignant in light of her past. She intersper
Famous mystery writer and convicted murderer Celia joanne Drayton makes the reader work to get to interesting information about Anne Perry which for me was the murder. I think in part the reason for this difficulty is that the book was written with Anne Perry's cooperation; Drayton felt need to be subtle with some of the controversy surrounding Anne Perry.The book starts off long descriptions about her writings which for the most part I skimmed over. The "literary" biography part of this book which describes off t. Divascribe said Too much detail, not enough info. I have read most of Anne Perry's Victorian murder mysteries and have been a fan of hers for years. When Heavenly Creatures came out and I learned about her past, I was fascinated and repelled at the same time. So I looked forward to reading this book for more insight into her life and character.Unfortunately, I found this book very dull, and Perry almost as much of a mystery as before I read it. There was a lot of detail, but not a lot of enlightenment. I think I'. "Truth told with insight and respect." according to Painter. Because of her brilliant writing, I had been curious about Anne Perry's childhood crime and how that had impacted on her life and the numerous and richly descriptive novels she produced, but until now had refrained from trying to find out more from a sense of prying into something that was none of my business.With this biography, I was able to assuage my possibly morbid curiosity without a feeling of guilt, because of the sensitive and unbiased way the details of
--David Pitt . From Booklist This is really the story of two women: Anne Perry, the best-selling crime novelist, who spent years dreaming of being a writer (and producing one rejected manuscript after another) before being catapulted into the upper literary stratosphere; and Juliet Hulme, who, when still a teenager, helped a friend murder the friend’s mother and spent five years in prison. In 1994, around the same time as Peter Jackson’s movie Heavenly Creatures was about to hit theaters, it was revealed that Anne Perry was Juliet Hulme. Drayton, who was given access not only to Perry but also to many people who know the author, examines Perry’s many novels in light of her earlier life,