{"product_id":"blood-will-out-the-true-story-of-a-murder-a-mystery-and-a-masquerade","title":"Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"First published as a Norton paperback 2015\"--Title page verso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA gripping performance!--Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHas the power and insight and raw energy of an instant classic.--Amy Hempel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere is no finer guide to the American berserk than Walter Kirn.--Gary Shteyngart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[A] tight, gripping book...This bit of noir, from Mr. Kirn about Clark Rockefeller, is just right.--Janet Maslin \"New York Times Book Review\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe parallels with Patricia Highsmith's \n\u003cem\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley\u003c\/em\u003e are not lost on Kirn, who spends as much time trying to understand how he and others fell under Gerhartstreiter's spell as he does relating the primary tale of the criminal himself. Kirn's candor, ear for dialogue, and crisp prose make for a masterful true crime narrative that is impossible to put down. The book deserves to become a classic.-- \"Publishers Weekly, Starred Review\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirn bravely lays bare his own vanities and follies in this heart-pounding true tale; he examines the hold of fiction on the human imagination--how we live for it and occasionally die for it, too.--Judith Newman \"More Magazine\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe story of \n\u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e is one of cosmic ironies and jaw-dropping reversals... What makes \n\u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e so absorbing is its teller more than its subject. Kirn's persona is captivating--funny, pissed off, highly literate, and self-searching. He's also an elegant, classic writer... Add the highly readable, intricately told \n\u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e to the list of great books about the dizzying tensions of the writing life and the maddening difficulty of getting at the truth.--Amity Gaige \"Slate\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[A] fascinating account of the imposter he considered his friend for 10 years... \n\u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of a hoaxer from the point of view of a mark, and of a relationship based on interlocking deceptions and self-deceptions. The result is a moral tale about the dangers of social climbing on a rickety ladder--for both those trying to scramble up the rungs and those trying to hold it steady below.--Heller McAlpin \"The Washington Post\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA mélange of memoir, stranger-than-fiction crime reporting and cultural critique. The literary markers run the gamut from James Ellroy's \n\u003cem\u003eMy Dark Places\u003c\/em\u003e, and Fyodor Doestoevsky's \n\u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e to Patricia Highsmith's \n\u003cem\u003eRipley\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy and \n\u003cem\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/em\u003e. Kirn's self-lacerating meditations on class, art, vanity, ambition, betrayal and delusion elevate the material beyond its pulpy core... Kirn's belated acceptance of reality provides the most fascinating and frustrating element of this engaging, self-flagellating memoir.--Larry Lebowitz \"Miami Herald\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirn's account of his friendship with this strange and terrible man cuts through the frippery of Gerhartsreiter's outrageous affectations to reveal the Lovecraftian nightmare hiding beneath the J. Press blazer. \n\u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e is a wise, deeply frightening, and potentially sleep-disrupting read... In the end, Kirn manages to transform his personal account of one of this century's most aberrant personalities into a vessel bearing universal truths about narrative, evil, and the American Dream itself.--Eugenia Williamson \"Boston Globe\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbsorbing... If there's anything rarer than a con man with Clark's gift for the game, it's a writer of Kirn's quicksilver accomplishment... To have someone of Kirn's ability write about the case from the inside promises exceptional insight into the way such tricksters operate and the even greater enigma of what motivates them.--Laura Miller \"Salon.com\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEngrossing... A haunting, pained and terrifically engaging self-interrogation.--Charles Finch \"Chicago Tribune\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA nod to a different canon of con men and tricksters: the protagonist of Melville's \n\u003cem\u003eThe Confidence-Man\u003c\/em\u003e, the prep-school clones of Leopold and Loeb of Hitchcock's \n\u003cem\u003eRope\u003c\/em\u003e, and Highsmith's highbrow hucksters--all crossed with the shadows of film noir.--Eric Banks \"Bookforum\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald.--Nina Burleigh \"The New York Times Book Review\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of the most honest, compelling and strangest books about the relationship between a writer and his subject ever penned by an American scribe-- Each new revelation comes subtly, and each adds to the pathetic and creepy portrait of Clark Rockefeller as a vacuous manipulator-- The ending of \n\u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e is at once deeply ambiguous and deeply satisfying. By then, Kirn has looked into the eyes of a cruel, empty man--and learned a lot about himself in the process.--Hector Tobar \"Los Angeles Times\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn--then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes, Kirn learns, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man? To answer these and other questions, Kirn attends his old friend's murder trial and uses it as an occasion to reflect on both their tangled personal relationship and the surprising literary sources of Rockefeller's evil. This investigation of the past climaxes in a tense jailhouse reunion with a man whom Kirn realizes he barely knew--a predatory, sophisticated genius whose life, in some respects, parallels his own and who may have intended to take another victim during his years as a fugitive from justice: Kirn himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining confessional memoir, true crime reporting, and cultural speculation, \u003cem\u003eBlood Will Out\u003c\/em\u003e is a Dreiser-esque tale of self-invention, upward mobility, and intellectual arrogance. It exposes the layers of longing and corruption, ambition and self-delusion beneath the Great American con.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eKirn, Walter\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Kirn\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \n\u003cem\u003eThumbsucker\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eUp in the Air\u003c\/em\u003e, both made into major films. 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