![]() ![]() The book evokes the Village's gay and lesbian underground with deep feeling and colorful detail. Downtown, Greenwich Village teemed with beatniks and so-called misfits like Kitty and her lover. She was a vibrant young woman-a lesbian, a bartender working (and dancing) her way through the colorful New York of the '60s. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese. ![]() The truth is far more compelling-and so is the victim. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop-a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of 38 neighbors who "didn't want to get involved." Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the "Bystander Effect." That's the narrative-but as author Kevin Cook reveals, the story is just that, a story. "At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. ![]()
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