Angel Face
Sex, Murder, and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox [The movie tie-in to The Face of an Angel]
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2.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau -- who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense -- describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime.
Customer Reviews
Extremely biased and terminally boring.
It’s not particularly well written, the author seems immediately biased, even admitting that she is a personal friend and very chummy with the prosecutor on the case, making excuses for for all of his corrupt behavior on this trial and throughout his career so it makes for a very slanted take on events and therefore a bit boring and predictable. She is extremely critical of every female figure in the courtroom down to the way they dress and their eating habits (with the exception of the victim’s mother and a single juror), making her sound sexist towards women in general. The author throughout states her opinion as fact, leaving little room to make up your own mind based on literal facts.