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02490aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 6FE3890E2EFD11E7A97D5AD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170502010152 008 170331t20171984nyua 000 0 eng 020 $a 0399591400 020 $a 9780399591402 040 $a FM0 $b eng $e rda $c FM0 $d CPL $d ABG $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d OCO $d KLP $d GKX $d HEV $d NCRJL $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a HV6529 $b .T74 2017 082 04 $a 364.1523/0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Trillin, Calvin, $e author. 245 10 $a Killings / $c Calvin Trillin. 250 $a [Expanded edition] 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c [2017] 300 $a xviii, 293 pages ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ticknor & Fields, in 1984, in different form. The pieces in this book first appeared in The New Yorker"--Title-page verso. 500 $a "An expanded edition of the classic book on life and death in America"--Dust jacket. 505 0 $a A stranger with a camera -- I've always been clean -- Jim, Tex, and the one-armed man -- Sergei Kourdakov -- You always turn your head -- Harvey St. Jean had it made -- Partners -- Melisha Morganna Gibson -- Family problems -- Todo se paga -- It's just too late -- Called at Rushton -- Resettling the Yangs -- Among friends -- The mystery of Walter Bopp -- A father-son operation -- I've got problems -- Right-of-way -- Rumors around town -- Outdoor life -- At the train bridge -- Covering the cops. 520 $a "'Reporters love murders,' Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. 'In a pinch, what the lawyers call "wrongful death" will do, particularly if it's sudden.' Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violence or police procedure than by the way the fabric of people's lives is suddenly exposed when someone comes to an untimely end"--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Murder $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Murder. 650 0 $a Murder victims $z United States. 651 0 $a United States. 650 0 $a True crime stories. 941 $a 5 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611013620.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014630.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012024711.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722054532.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006104821.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6FE3890E2EFD11E7A97D5AD2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search