Bibliograph

Compulsion, a novel, Meyer Levin ; foreword by Marcia Clark ; introduction by Gabriel Levin

Type

Label

Compulsion, a novel, Meyer Levin ; foreword by Marcia Clark ; introduction by Gabriel Levin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Compulsion

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

905238957

Responsibility statement

Meyer Levin ; foreword by Marcia Clark ; introduction by Gabriel Levin

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with Nietzsche's idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighborhood

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