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The Fatal Gift of Beauty is a thoughtful, compelling examination of an enduring
mystery; an ancient, storied place; and a disquieting facet of Italian culture...its
obsession with female eroticism. It is also an acute window into the minds and
personalities of the accused killers and of the conservative Italian magistrate
striving to make sense of an inexplicable act of evil. But, at its core, it is an
indelible portrait of Amanda Knox, the strangely childlike, enigmatic beauty whose
photogenic face became the focal point of international speculation about the
dark side of youth and freedom.
mystery; an ancient, storied place; and a disquieting facet of Italian culture...its
obsession with female eroticism. It is also an acute window into the minds and
personalities of the accused killers and of the conservative Italian magistrate
striving to make sense of an inexplicable act of evil. But, at its core, it is an
indelible portrait of Amanda Knox, the strangely childlike, enigmatic beauty whose
photogenic face became the focal point of international speculation about the
dark side of youth and freedom.
| The Fatal Gift of Beauty by Nina Burleigh Broadway Books, N.Y., 2011 |
