Does this mean that the people of Savannah are unusually tolerant? In what ways are they tolerant, and in what instances do they prove to be intolerant? How tolerant are they when it comes to the crossing of sexual, racial, or class lines?ģ. What effect does this characteristic have on the life of the city and of its inhabitants? In what ways does Savannah differ from other cities or communities you know?Ģ. John Berendt describes Savannah as inward-turning, a "semitropical terrarium" (p. The book contains one beguiling and outrageous story after another–all true–in which Berendt offers up a rogue’s gallery of true-life rascals, eccentrics and proper society folk who live behind the stately facades of Savannah’s grandest houses. While Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, it is actually a magical non-fiction rendering of a secluded and hauntingly beautiful city in which an infamous murder took place.
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With 2.5 million copies in print, publication in 24 countries, major literary prize recognition including being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1995, and spin offs into a TV documentary, major motion picture and traveling theatrical production, the success of John Berendt’s book is unprecedented. Never before in the history of publishing has a fiction or non-fiction book spent as much time on The New York Times Bestseller List as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. We hope they will provide you with interesting ways to approach this riveting and compulsively readable story of scandal and murder in the enchanted city of Savannah, a place not quite like any other. The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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