{"product_id":"luke-karamazov-paperback","title":"Luke Karamazov - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eConrad Hilberry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEmanuel Tanay\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLuke Karamazov \u003c\/em\u003eis the true story of two brothers who were convicted of serial murders. In 1964, Luke Karamozov (née Ralph Searl) confessed to killing five men over a three-month period; following in his grisly footsteps was his younger brother, Tommy Searl, who was sentenced for the rape and murder of four young women in or around the brothers' hometown of Kalamazoo.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The events described in the book have the drama of fiction, but are very real events. Conrad Hilberry based his account on interviews with the two men, their friends, the woman whom they both married, and prison officials. Choosing to focus more on the texture of the men's lives than on the crimes themselves, Hilberry explores the movement of their thoughts and the ways in which they have each dealt with their brutal childhoods and their lives in prison.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eLuke Karamazov \u003c\/em\u003eis an unusually vivid and detailed study of two contrasting psychological types. Drawing on Ernest Becker's \u003cem\u003eDenial of Death, \u003c\/em\u003eHilberry presents Karamazov and his brother as extreme instances of behavior and states of mind that, surprisingly, are not uncommon. The result is a story that is at once bizarre and psychologically interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConrad Hilberry is professor of English at Kalamazoo College. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. As a poet he has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 1984 artists award from the Michigan Foundation for the Arts. His latest book of poems The Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple, was published in 1984 by the University of Georgia Press. He is one of the editors of The Third Coast, an anthology of Michigan poetry, published in 1976 by the Wayne State University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46647544479929,"sku":"9780814342886","price":66.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/3fUDRs_Wuk9780814342886.webp?v=1782894450","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/luke-karamazov-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}