Bibliograph

American animals, a true crime memoir, Eric Borsuk

Type

Label

American animals, a true crime memoir, Eric Borsuk

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American animals

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Eric Borsuk

Sub title

a true crime memoir

Summary

American Animals is a coming-of-age crime memoir centered around three childhood friends: Warren, Spencer, and Eric. Disillusioned with freshman year of college, and determined to escape from their mundane Middle-American existences, the three hatch a plan to steal millions of dollars' worth of artwork and rare manuscripts from a university museum. The story that unfolds is a gripping adventure of teenage rebellion, from page-turning meetings with black-market art dealers in Amsterdam, to the opulent galleries of Christie's auction house in Rockefeller Center. American Animals ushers the reader along a gut-wrenching ride of adolescent self-destruction, providing a front-row seat to the inception, planning, and execution of the heist, while offering a rare glimpse into the evolution of a crime-all narrated by one of the perpetrators in a darkly comic, action-packed, true-crime caper

Target audience

adult

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