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Avenue of the Giants follows Al Kenner as he progresses from antisocial adolescent to full-fledged serial killer in the turbulent ‘60s and ‘70s. A giant at over 7 feet tall with an IQ higher than Einstein’s, Al was never ordinary. His life is tainted by his parents’ divorce and his mother’s abusive behavior, and it takes a chilling turn on the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Al spends 5 years in a psychiatric hospital, and although he convinces the staff that he is of sound mind, he continues to harbor vicious impulses. Al leads a double life, befriending the Santa Cruz Police Chief and contemplating marrying his daughter, all the while committing a series of brutal murders. Delving into the mind of this complex killer, Marc Dugain powerfully evokes an America torn between the pacifism of the hippie movement and the violence of Vietnam.
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Born in Senegal in 1957, Marc Dugain is the author of numerous successful novels. His novel The Officers’ Ward (2001, Soho Press) recounts his grandfather’s experiences in World War I and was made into a 2001 film of the same name.
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In the mid-1960s, a teenager named Edmund Kemper murdered his grandparents. After spending several years in a state hospital, he was released and almost immediately began a killing spree that took the lives of several young women. In this extremely compelling novel, French author Dugain creates a fictional character, Al Kenner, who shares a lot of Kemper’s personal history as well as his high IQ. Narrated by the fictional Kenner, the book takes us deep inside the mind of an extremely intelligent killer who is smart enough to know not only that he has the capacity for horrific behavior but also how to conceal his impulses. Far more compelling than any nonfiction account of Kemper’s life could possibly be—a skilled novelist writing about a fictional character can go places a nonfiction chronicler cannot—the novel leaves us with the feeling that we’ve met a man who’s very good at killing and who, chillingly, is not as different from us as we’d like him to be. --David Pitt
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- PublisherEuropa Editions
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1609452003
- ISBN 13 9781609452001
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