Chicago: With the Chicago Tribune Articles that Inspired It Paperback – October 29, 1997
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| Management number | 220796638 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $68.52 | Model Number | 220796638 | ||
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Jake Callahan, exhalting in his great fortune at finding the story of "the most beautiful murderess," precisely characterizes Watkins’s satirical take on murder and its aftermath—a view she formed while covering two similar and equally sensational murder trials for the Chicago Tribune.Watkins opens this comic drama with a brutal dramatization of the same situation the women in her articles faced: a vengeful Roxie has slain her lover for mistreating her. And then the fun begins. A boring, run-of-the-mill murderess until her frank confession creates an opportunity for profit, Roxie begins a transformation to rival that of Pygmalion’s statue. She becomes, as Thomas H. Pauly points out in his introduction, a "tabloid Cinderella." Read more
| ISBN10 | 0809321297 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0809321292 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches |
| Item Weight | 11.2 ounces |
| Print length | 200 pages |
| Publication date | October 29, 1997 |
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