{"product_id":"threemonth-fever-the-andrew-cunanan-story-9780060191450","title":"Three-Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It was suddenly chic to be targeted by Andrew...It also became chic to claim a deep personal friendship with Versace  to infer that one might  but for a trick of fate  have been with Versace at the very moment of his assassination  as it had once been chic to reveal ones invitation to Cielo Drive in the evening of the Tate slayings  an invitation only declined because of car trouble or a previuos engagement. Versaces friends no less than Andrews friends were helpless not to make hay off the carcass  for the narrative itself excluded from existence all relevant persons who failed to appear  to put their two cents in...and because the narrative had the force of a psychic avalanche it provided the seque ferom the previous marrivtie  extricated the public eye form the previous keyhole  the Andrew narrative  in effect  solved the JonBent Ramsey murder case  as that case had finally wrapped up the O. J. Simpson case  which in turn had closed the Menendez case  the Andrew mystery would ultimately be solved by the death of Princess Di...\" -- from Three Month Fever In Three Month Fever  his first book-length work of nonfiction  Gary Indiana presents the 1997 killing spree of Andrew Cunanan as a peculiarly contemporary artifact  an alloy in which reality and myth have been inseparably combined. The case generated an astonishing sequence of news reports in which the suspect became a \"monster \" \"serial killer \" \"high-priced homosexual prostitute \" \"pervert \" \"master of disguise \" \"chameleon \" and so forth. In reality  this figure of dread bore little resemblance to the scary sociopath of legend. In following Cunanans \"trail of death \" Indiana presents a riveting  fully realized portrait of a very bright  even brilliant young man whom people liked. He had charisma  great looks  and money that he spent very freely on others. He was a sympathetic listener with a phenomenal memory for names  faces  and virtually anything he read or saw. But he didnt fit in anywhere  and he couldnt solve the problem of how to live. He was trying to do better  to come from a better place  to have a better background. He made up stories about himself that made him feel more like other people or made him seem more interesting than he thought he was. He wanted to be loved for himself. The two people he thought might love him for himself didnt  and he ended up killing them. This was probably the last thing he wanted to do. Andrew was compulsively social  and as long as he could establish some intercourse with the outside world he could function  even if he had to conceal the ugly secrets he was accumulating. He could hang out in gay bars in Chicago while on the run  come to New York and live in a bathhouse  go to movies  pick people up. Even after the killing in New Jersey  his crimes were below the threshold of most peoples awareness. But in Miami he found himself trapped  the very places where he expected to \"blend in\" were informed about who he was and what he looked like. It was isolation he could not deal with--and that led to his total disintegration and the death of Gianni Versace. Three Month Fever is a tour de force in which Indiana reveals how Andrew Cunanan fell apart over time and what he might have sounded like in his own mind. Rarely has a writer immersed himself in the mind of a killer with such startling effect. Gary Indiana has created a new form of true crime that is as insightful as it is riveting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789704781877,"sku":"ByrdShop_0060191457","price":23.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060191450.jpg?v=1784695269","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/threemonth-fever-the-andrew-cunanan-story-9780060191450","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}