An edition of The Stranger Beside Me (1980)

The stranger beside me

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The stranger beside me
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An edition of The Stranger Beside Me (1980)

The stranger beside me

  • 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 103 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a crisis clinic. A man she regards as a younger brother; a man she views as a close and trusted friend. The slow but inexorable realization on Rule's part that this man is in fact an unspeakably violent serial killer is as painful to read as it was for her to experience.

Each victim is described in terms of such respect and such anguish that even a family member, I think, can feel that his or her daughter has been given a chance to shine, a chance to be more than a victim, more than a nameless number (8th girl killed, and so forth). The poignancy of these girls' very human preoccupations and lives serves to outline the contrasting horror in even more detail. That is why Rule does not have to defile the victims with intricate detail. The contrast between their young lives and their terrible deaths is enough in itself.

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Pages
442

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The Stranger Beside Me
Jan 04, 2022, W. W. Norton & Company
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The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
Nov 05, 2019, Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio
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Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
2019, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Stranger Beside Me: The True Crime Story of Ted Bundy
2018-06-09, Renaissance Literary & Talent
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The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
Nov 06, 2018, Gallery Books
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Stranger Beside Me
2012, Primedia eLaunch LLC
in English
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The stranger beside me
2009, Pocket Books Reprint
in English
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The stranger beside me
2001, Signet
in English - Updated 20th anniversary ed.
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The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary
June 12, 2001, Signet
in English
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Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy
January 1, 2000, W.W. Norton & Co.
Hardcover - Large Print edition
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The stranger beside me
2000, Thorndike Press
in English - Updated 20th annniversary ed.
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The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition
September 2000, W. W. Norton & Company, Norton
in English
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Stranger Beside Me
1998, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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The stranger beside me
1994, Warner
in English - Rev. and updated ed.
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Stranger Beside Me
1994, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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The stranger beside me
1989, New American Library
in English - Rev. and updated ed.
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Cover of: The Stranger Beside Me
The Stranger Beside Me
April 15, 1986, Signet
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The stranger beside me
1986, New American Library
in English
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The stranger beside me.
1986, New American Library
in English - (New edition).
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The Stranger Beside Me
Jul 07, 1981, Signet
mass market paperback
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The Stranger Beside Me: Revised and Updated Edition
July 1, 1981, Signet
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Stranger Beside Me
1981, Penguin Publishing Group, Signet
in English
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The Stranger Beside Me
Jul 07, 1981, Signet
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The stranger beside me
1980, Norton
in English - 1st ed.
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The stranger beside me.
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Ted Bundy: Um Estranho Ao Meu Lado
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hardcover in Portuguese
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The stranger beside me
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Edition Notes

A Signet book.

"An authorized reprint of a hardcover edition published by W.W. Norton."--T.p. verso.

"Updated with an afterword by the author"--Cover.

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New York

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 442 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
442

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18441672M
ISBN 10
0451146352
Library Thing
39366

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