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DescriptionA haunting and striking account of the imagined inner lives of real people caught up in terrible events Daily Mail In 1958, as the snow fell across Nebraska, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann, climbed into a stolen car and blazed into history with a string of bloody murders that stunned America. But why, over thirty years later, does Lowell, a Manhattan antiques collector, still dream of what happened? And who is Puggy, the young girl obsessed by the murders? And then there's Caril Anns version of the story - from the day she first met Charlie to the end of their rampage on a farm outside the town of Valentine. Disturbing and intense, Outside Valentine is a story of devastating losses and the transforming power of love. Compellingcaptivating. A must-read I-D Impeccably drawnastonishingly poetic yet palpable prose Elle Well-written and chilling Uncut First published 2004. |