Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
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Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantine's Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere.
Poe Ballantine's "Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel" included in Best American Essays 2013, and for well over twentyâŚ
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I thought Love & Terror was a book about a killing in Chadron, Nebraska, which was correct. . . sort of. Ballantineâs sparkling prose and grim compassion hooked me immediately. The book does examine a deathâsuicide? murder?âbut we donât meet the victim, Steven Haataja, until page 62.
Ballantine drives past the shuffling Haataja the night before his death and tells us Haataja âlimped slightly from a recently broken hip. If Iâd known what was going to happen to him, I would have run him over . . . hard enough to break his other hip, put him back in hisâŚ
From Geoffrey's list on crime exploring more than the crime.
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