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The Shoemaker

by Flora Rheta Schreiber · 1983

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The Shoemaker is on one level a brilliant and terrifying recreation of a crime that made headlines: the bizarre story of a man who embarked on a spree of burglary, rape and eventually murder. it also takes us on an extraordinary journey into the mind and soul of a psychotic. Kallinger was at once a poet and a murderer, a loving father and the killer of one of his own sons, a devoted husband and a vicious rapist, an dreamer and a man obsessed by nightmares of horror and destruction.

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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 423 pages

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