Invisible Eden by Maria Flook


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Author:	Maria Flook	Edition:	1
Publisher:	Bantam Dell Pub Group	ISBN-10:	0767913744
Subject:	True Crime	ISBN-13:	9780767913744
Topic:	--	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English	Publication Year:	2003
Condition:	Like New	Special Attributes:	--

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Synopsis
The horrific murder of Christa Worthington on Cape Cod in 2002 is explored in this investigative account, which looks into the crime, surveys the principals involved, and ends with the author's admitted inability to come to a conclusion about the killer. This sad tale of a careerist fashion writer who returns to her home town to settle down and have a child, only to have her life cut brutally short remains an unsolved crime.
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Length:	406 pages
Height:	6.5 in.
Width:	9.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	24.0 oz.

Publisher's Note
A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal, still-unsolved murder. On the surface, Christa Worthington’s life had the appearance of privilege and comfort. She was the granddaughter of prominent New Yorkers. Her sparkling journalism earned the fashion world’s respect. But she had turned her back on a glamorous career and begun living in the remote Cape Cod town where she had summered as a child. When she was found murdered in Truro, Massachusetts, just after New Year’s Day in 2002, her toddler daughter clinging to her side, her violent death brought to the surface the many unspoken mysteries of her life. Invisible Eden is the deeply felt story of a career woman's attempt to start over and reinvent her life away from the fashion circles of New York and Paris only to have an out-of-wedlock child with a local fisherman, forge a life as a single mother, and meet a violent end. Brilliantly portraying Christa’s hunger for belonging and her struggle for survival as a first-time mother, Flook searingly evokes her search for a safe haven, her many tumultuous relationships, and the evidence linking family, strangers, lovers, suspects, and innocents to the tragedy that both shocked a seaside town on Cape Cod and horrified the nation. Flook intricately maps Christa's charged life before her death and follows the first year of the murder investigation with the help of the district attorney who is in an election battle even as he searches for the killer. At the same time, Invisible Eden captures the Cape's haunted landscape, class stratifications, and never-ending battles between its weathy summer residents and its hardscrabble working families who together form a backdrop for a powerful chronicle of love and murder. An edgy and compelling portrait of a woman's tragic journey, Invisible Eden is a mesmerizing true story.

This book is in excellent condition with no tears, stains, folds or inscriptions. The dust jacket is also in very good condition. Just like new!! Book measures approximately 8 1/2 " x 5 1/2" inches. This is about an accomplished world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal murder. Truro Massachusetts

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