![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was adapted into a 1997 film, directed by Clint Eastwood. Berendt has since acknowledged that he fabricated some scenes and changed the sequence of some events. Virtually seeming like a novel and reading like a tale, the non-fictional story is about the real-life events surrounding the multiple murder trials of antiques dealer Jim Williams in Savannah, Georgia. The story, unsettling and real, broke down the idea of the quintessential phenomenon of a true American city, only to reveal its quirks: its man walking an invisible dog its voice of the drag queen a high-society man in its elite community – all that somehow, unravels a murder mystery. John Berendt (born Syracuse, NY, USA, December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.īerendt published Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1994 and it became an overnight success: the book spent a record-breaking 216 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list – to this day, the longest standing best seller of the Times. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |