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The shoemaker

Flora Rheta Schreiber

19831 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1983
first published
  • 1983Allen Lane · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9780713916362
  • 1983Simon and Schuster · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9780671226527
  • 1984Penguin · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9780140070637
  • 1984Signet · 1 pagesISBN 9780451153456

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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