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The Interpretation of Murder
Contributor(s): Rubenfeld, Jed (Author)
ISBN: 0312427050     ISBN-13: 9780312427054
Publisher: Picador USA
OUR PRICE:   $23.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2007
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Annotation: The search for a serial killer during Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to New York City, his one visit to the U.S., propels the plot of Yale law professor Rubenfeld's ambitious debut in this well-researched and thought-provoking novel.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical
- Fiction | Thrillers - Historical
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006043434
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (2.56 lbs) 464 pages
Themes:
- Seasonal - Summer
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
 
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International Bestseller
#1 U.K. Bestseller
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller

In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this country. Little is known about the week he spent in Manhattan, and Freud's biographers have long speculated as to why, in his later years, he referred to Americans as savages and criminals.

In The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld weaves the facts of Freud's visit into a riveting, atmospheric story of corruption and murder set all over turn-of-the-century New York. Drawing on case histories, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the historical details of a city on the brink of modernity, The Interpretation of Murder introduces a brilliant new storyteller, a novelist who, in the words of The New York Times, will be no ordinary pop-cultural sensation.

Contributor Bio(s): Rubenfeld, Jed: - Currently a professor of law at Yale University, Jed Rubenfeld is one of this country's foremost experts on constitutional law. He wrote his Princeton undergraduate thesis on Sigmund Freud and studied Shakespeare at Julliard. He is the author of The Interpretation of Murder. He lives in Connecticut.