Melanie Thernstrom, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-86547-681-3
Imagine a "terror that surpasses all description," novelist Fanny Burney wrote in 1812 after removal of a breast abscess— without anesthesia. Then imagine such pain stalking you for years, as it does Thernstrom (Raj: The Making of British India) and
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Melanie Thernstrom, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-48745-0
The 1995 murder of Harvard student Trang Phuong Ho by her roommate, Sinedu Tadesse, was so shocking that it appeared to defy conventional explanation. Early reports focused on the perceived similarities between the girls: both were from war-torn...
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Melanie Thernstrom, Author Atria Books $19.95 (430p) ISBN 978-0-671-66332-2
Thernstrom's friend Roberta ``Bibi'' Lee was a student at UC-Berkeley when she was murdered in 1984 while jogging with her boyfriend. The event proved to be a watershed in the life of the adolescently depressed, obsessively analytical author. While...
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Melanie Thernstrom, Author, Elaine Pfefferblit, Editor Pocket Books $6.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-66333-9
Thernstrom gives an account of her best friend, UC-Berkeley student Roberta ``Bibi'' Lee, murdered in 1984 while jogging with her boyfriend, Bradley Page. stet ``An innovative if self-indulgent approach to the true crime genre,'' said PW. ``Putativel
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