Indiana Gothic: A True Story of Love, Betrayal and Murder in the American Midwest - Softcover

Pope Brock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747273537 ISBN 13: 9780747273530

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Reading like a novel, this is the biography of the author's great-grandmother and her sister who lived in a poor, pious farming community in Indiana at the turn of the last century. One sister falls in love with the other's husband, and this is the story of their increasingly reckless, ongoing affair and the inevitable denouement which follows.

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tween fiction and nonfiction have become increasingly blurred, but in journalist Pope Brock's first book, about murder and adultery in his family, everything is true.

Journalist Pope Brock grew up ignorant of his family's most closely guarded secret. It was only when his great-aunt was dying that he learned the true circumstances surrounding the death of his great-grandfather Ham Dillon. An aspiring young Indiana politician, Dillon was shot to death in 1908 by his own brother-in-law, Link Hale--a man half-crazed with anger and grief over the fact that his wife, Allie, had just borne Ham a child. To add another twist, Allie Hale was more than just Ham Dillon's lover; she was also his wife's only sister.

Fascinated by this revelation, Pope Brock began his research. In Indiana Gothic, he tells the story of Ham Dillon with the sweep and power of a novel, re-creating the era in such vivid detail that we have the sensation of time travel. Readers first meet the young H

About the Author

Pope Brock was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Harvard in 1971. After training as an actor, he became a journalist, writing for Esquire, GQ and Life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0747273537
• ISBN 13: 9780747273530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384