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Article: Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America.
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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This is the book that occupied the last seven years of the life of J. Anthony Lukas. It was finished, but not yet published, when he died on June 5. Comments of associates and a troubled interview with Judith Gaines of The Boston Globe, dated eight days before his death, pointed to his depression over its supposed imperfections as a cause of his suicide.
Big Trouble may be -- is -- imperfect, but it stands as a work fully worthy of its author. It displays the same skill and conscience that won Lukas two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1968 for a New York Times article on the death in New York's East Village of a suburban teenager turned hippie; the other for Common ...
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