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Fig Tree
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
Featuring: Judd Steiner; Artie Straus
ISBN: 1941493025
EAN: 9781941493021
Paperback (reprint)
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth,
intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the
elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie
is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a
hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate.
Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a
companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with
Nietzsche’s idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to
prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily
picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighborhood. This new edition of Meyer Levin's classic literary thriller
Compulsion reintroduces the fictionalized case of Leopold
and Loeb - once considered the "crime of the century" - to a
new generation. This incisive psychological portrait of two
young murderers seized the imagination of an era and is
generally recognized as paving the way for the first
non-fiction novel. Compulsion forces us to ask what drives
some further into darkness, and some to seek redemption. Heartbreaking as it is gripping, Compulsion is written with
a tense and penetrating force that led Norman Mailer to call
Levin, “[t]he most significant Jewish writer of his time.”
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