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Chicago: With the Chicago Tribune Articles that Inspired It Paperback – October 29, 1997

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Management number 220796638 Release Date 2026/05/03 List Price €68.52 Model Number 220796638
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Jake Callahan, exhalting in his great fortune at finding the story of "the most beautiful murderess," precisely characterizes Watkins’s satirical take on murder and its aftermath—a view she formed while covering two similar and equally sensational murder trials for the Chicago Tribune.Watkins opens this comic drama with a brutal dramatization of the same situation the women in her articles faced: a vengeful Roxie has slain her lover for mistreating her. And then the fun begins. A boring, run-of-the-mill murderess until her frank confession creates an opportunity for profit, Roxie begins a transformation to rival that of Pygmalion’s statue. She becomes, as Thomas H. Pauly points out in his introduction, a "tabloid Cinderella." Read more

ISBN10 0809321297
ISBN13 978-0809321292
Edition First Edition
Language English
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Item Weight 11.2 ounces
Print length 200 pages
Publication date October 29, 1997

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