An American Tragedy
“Demonstrate[s] Gardner’s subtle expertise as a narrator. A master performer, he elevates this naturalistic novel, an account of the strivings and disappointments of Clyde Griffiths, a flawed but fascinating protagonist…[and] its precisely chiseled anti-capitalist details of a stratified collar factory with its nepotistic organization and its evocation of prison life—rigid, punitive, and unyielding—which will make even the most hard-hearted listener yearn for restorative justice. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
The Atlantic Pick of 100 Best Books of the Past 100 Years
A New York Times Pick of Books of the Century
A Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best and Most Influential Nonfiction Books since 1923
This story follows a true crime murder case from New York in 1906. Clyde Griffiths is the impoverished young man from a family of street preachers who dreams of bettering his station in life. However, his dream ends in murder and he is subsequently arrested and put on trial-putting the media in a frenzy.
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