It chronicles interwoven lives in Venice in the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. John Cusack plays a character loosely based on Berendt in the movie Jim Williams is portrayed by Kevin Spacey.īerendt’s second book, The City of Falling Angels, was published in September 2005. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was adapted into a 1997 film, directed by Clint Eastwood. Berendt has since acknowledged that he fabricated some scenes and changed the sequence of some events. Virtually seeming like a novel and reading like a tale, the non-fictional story is about the real-life events surrounding the multiple murder trials of antiques dealer Jim Williams in Savannah, Georgia. The story, unsettling and real, broke down the idea of the quintessential phenomenon of a true American city, only to reveal its quirks: its man walking an invisible dog its voice of the drag queen a high-society man in its elite community – all that somehow, unravels a murder mystery. John Berendt (born Syracuse, NY, USA, December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.īerendt published Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1994 and it became an overnight success: the book spent a record-breaking 216 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list – to this day, the longest standing best seller of the Times.
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