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Fact of a Body

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781509805648
  • Weight: 236g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 03 May 2018
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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'Part memoir, part true crime, wholly brilliant' – Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

'As gripping as a thriller' - Literary Review

When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, she finds herself thrust into the tangled story of his childhood. As she digs deeper and deeper into the case she realizes that, despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.

The Fact of a Body is both an enthralling memoir and a groundbreaking, heart-stopping investigation into how the law is personal, composed of individual stories, and proof that arriving at the truth is more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.

Winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Chautauqua Prize

'This book is a marvel' - Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts

'Gripping and fascinating' - Sophie Hannah, author of The Couple at the Table

About Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in creative writing. The Fact of a Body won a Lambda Literary Award a Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Oxford American, Salon and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and also teaches graduate public policy students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The Fact of a Body is her first book.

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