By Meyer Levin,Marcia Clark,Gabriel Levin
This new version of Meyer Levin's vintage literary mystery Compulsion reintroduces the fictionalized case of Leopold and Loeb as soon as thought of the "crime of the century" to a brand new iteration. This incisive mental portrait of 2 younger murderers seized the mind's eye of an period and is usually well-known as paving the best way for the 1st non-fiction novel. Compulsion forces us to invite what drives a few additional into darkness, and a few to hunt redemption.
Heartbreaking because it is gripping, Compulsion is written with a demanding and penetrating strength that led the Los Angeles Times to name Levin, the most important Jewish author of his times.”
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