false 18235 9 Dominick Dunne was a ringside witness to the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, about which he wrote extensively for <I>Vanity Fair</I> magazine. In <I>Another City, Not My Own</I>, he revisits the case, this time in fictional form. In this "novel in the form of a memoir," Dunne's fiction skates perilously close to fact in most instances. O.J., Marcia Clark, Johnnie Cochran, and a whole host of celebrity characters keep their own names while the life story of protagonist Gus Bailey closely follows Dunne's own. Like Dunne, Bailey--who has appeared in previous works by the author--is a journalist, the father of a murdered child and thus a keen chronicler of the American justice system. The O.J. Simpson trial is a natural magnet for such a man. <P> Throughout the novel, Bailey spends his days in the courtroom and his evenings at celebrity-studded soirees; names such as Heidi Fleiss, Elizabeth Taylor, and Kirk Douglas punctuate the narrative as Dunne comments on the case, the sensibilities of both the accused and his accusers, and the roles of race, fame, and guilt in America today. But shocking as the Simpson case was, Dunne's denouement to his fictional memoir is <I>so</I> bizarre that it may well eclipse the verdict entirely. 1003590 1997 Another City, Not My Own total:199|5:38|4:66|3:74|2:16|1:5| 199 713 251 22 18235 0517361396 9780517361399 156 16 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18235.Another_City_Not_My_Own 1 2 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Oct 19 14:15:10 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 14:15:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18235 0517361396 9780517361399 156 16 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18235.Another_City_Not_My_Own 3 0 false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 16:59:42 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 17:16:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 18235 0517361396 9780517361399 156 16 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18235.Another_City_Not_My_Own 5 0 false Thu Jun 04 18:19:38 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 18:22:54 -0700 2009 18235 0517361396 9780517361399 156 16 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18235.Another_City_Not_My_Own 3 0 false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 12:32:29 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 12:34:11 -0800 2008 18235 0517361396 9780517361399 156 16 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18235.Another_City_Not_My_Own 4 0 false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:02:59 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:04:30 -0700 2009 1017463 0609601008 9780609601006 11 3 3.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180270769m/1017463.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1017463.Another_City_Not_My_Own_A_Novel_in_the_Form_of_a_Memoir 2 0 false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 17:57:31 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 08:47:34 -0700 2009 ]]> 18235 0517361396 9780517361399 156 16 3.58 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18235.Another_City_Not_My_Own 1 0 false Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 08:48:59 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 08:52:15 -0800 2008
Just hundreds of pages of boring pretentious dialog about the OJ trial. Makes you want to puke.

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