"Wonderfully researched...Searing and brilliant...A must-read "--
Ann Rule, the undisputed queen of True Crime The first case -- the
one that launched an epidemic of teacher/student abuse cases --
written by New York Times bestselling author, Gregg Olsen. You know
how the story ended...but do you know how it all started? Within
hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had
her baby daughter whisked from her arms. She was then shackled and
returned to her jail cell. Just years ago, the pretty, personable
Seattle schoolteacher was living a life many would envy-- she had a
handsome husband, four beautiful children, and a beloved following
of students. Then she was accused of child rape, and her whole
world turned upside down. Rapist Or Victim? How did a 34-year-old
married teacher fall in love with one of her sixth-grade students?
Was it a complete lapse of judgment, or-- as she contends-- the
meeting of two soulmates? Were the two planning to run away
together-- before police caught them in a parked car? Did the
couple have illicit sex in every room of the Letourneau house, as
the teenager told the tabloids? Read about the case that shocked
the world and rocked the headlines-- about the lonely life of Mary
Kay Letourneau and the young object of her obsession, the boy who
fathered two of her children. You may think you know the story of
Mary Kay Letourneau-- but you don't know the whole story until
you've read...If Loving You Is Wrong. Includes interviews with Mary
Kay Letourneau. Amazon.com Review: The tale seems ripe for tabloid
exploitation: the fresh-faced blond elementary schoolteacher and
mother of four just couldn't keep her hands off that 13-year-old
boy. Worse yet, Mary Kay Letourneau had become obsessed with the
slight, Samoan teenager while he was still a student in her
sixth-grade class--and he fathered two babies with her. Yet in the
hands of true crime writer Gregg Olsen, If Loving You Is Wrong
becomes a poignant profile of an emotionally stunted young woman
tightly wound up in a web of lies too fragile to sustain the weight
of her own compulsions. The facade the Letourneaus presented to the
world was that of a devoted, upwardly mobile young couple. In
reality Steve and Mary Kay were on the verge of financial and
emotional bankruptcy. They married because she'd become pregnant
and appearances were everything to Mary Kay's parents,
ultra-conservative, family-values-promoting politician John Schmitz
and his icy wife, Mary. Olsen, whose previous books include
Abandoned Prayers and Black Widow, does a superior job with the
story, interviewing Letourneau herself as well as friends and
neighbors, researching and assembling the facts behind the lurid
headlines in a nonjudgmental manner that allows readers to draw
their own conclusions about the bigger issues at stake. Was Mary
Kay Letourneau a pedophile, a child rapist, a female Humbert
Humbert? Or was she, as she claims, a woman who'd found a soul mate
and a true love that defied America's puritanical norms? Read If
Loving You Is Wrong and decide for yourself. -- Patrizia DiLucchio
Review The Tucson Citizen called Olsen "One of America's favorite
crime writers."
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2012 |
First published: |
November 2012 |
Authors: |
Gregg Olsen
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
388 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4810-4901-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
1-4810-4901-1 |
Barcode: |
9781481049016 |
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