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No ordinary Joe.(True Story)(Book Review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 21-MAY-05

Author: Masters, Alexander

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TRUE STORY by Michael Finkel Chatto, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 312, ISBN 000701176881 14.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848

I can't decide whom I distrust more in True Story: the author, a humane and thoughtful man, or his subject, Joe Longo, who butchered his wife and youngest son, then drowned his other children by tying them up in a sack and dropping them into a lake like unwanted kittens.

True Story is written by a penitent. Three years ago Michael Finkel, a rising star of investigative and travel journalism, was caught making up a...

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