Miles Corwin
Autor/a de And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
Sobre l'autor
Miles Corwin is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He lives with his family outside Los Angeles
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Obres de Miles Corwin
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students (2000) 191 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Corwin, Miles
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Altadena, California, USA - Educació
- University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Missouri School of Journalism
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 5
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 534
- Popularitat
- #46,620
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 11
- ISBN
- 32
- Llengües
- 2
The premise here is that a journalist embeds with LAPD's elite homicide detective unit (only the complex, hard, or notorious cases, and those involving celebrities), Homicide Special, and watch the detectives do their work. Corwin weaves in the backstories of the detectives, the LAPD, the evolution of Homicide Special, Los Angeles, the suspects, and the victims. So while you're stuck in one arbitrary year, there is a lot of context skillfully weaved throughout.
The book reads almost like a novel spinning through multiple iterations of the first half of a Law & Order episode, but of course it's all the real deal. As such, it is a fascinating look at big city homicide work that "fortunately" for Corwin included the opening stages of the Robert Blake murder investigation as well as the bizarre saga of Robert Durst.
If you like that sort of thing--I do--then this will be a must read.… (més)