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Twentynine Palms: a True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave
Deanne Stillman
Twentynine Palms: a True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave
Deanne Stillman
August 2, 1991, Twentynine Palms, California: a troubled Marine who has recently returned from the Gulf War savagely murders two young girls. One girl was about to turn sixteen, the other twenty-one.Exquisitely and inexorably, Deanne Stillman uses this tragedy as a prism through which she explores not only the murders and the families involved but a rootless culture of fatherless families, shattered dreams, and relentless violence. In haunting, vivid prose, she creates a farreaching story of America itself, carrying us into the empty white heart of the Mojave, as we meet and come to know the modern nomads who turn to the West for salvation only to be devoured by its false promise.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 15, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9781883318796 |
Publishers | Angel City Press |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 156 × 227 × 17 mm · 439 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Charles Bowden |
Contributor | T. Jefferson Parker |
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