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By Aileen Wuornos,Lisa Kester,Daphne Gottlieb,Phyllis Chesler

ISBN-10: 1593762909

ISBN-13: 9781593762902

Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven males in distant Florida destinations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, however the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to dying on six separate counts, she was once achieved through deadly injection in 2002.

An abused runaway who became to prostitution to outlive, Wuornos has develop into iconic of vengeful ladies who lash out on the nearest goal. She has additionally develop into a touchstone for women’s, prostitutes’, and prisoners’ rights advocates. Her tale has encouraged myriad books and articles, in addition to the 2003 motion picture Monster, for which Charlize Theron received an Academy Award. yet beforehand, Wuornos’s uncensored voice hasn't ever been heard.

Dear Dawn is Wuornos’s autobiography culled from her ten-year demise row correspondence with loved youth buddy sunrise Botkins. licensed for booklet via Wuornos and edited less than the suggestions of Botkins, the letters not just provide Wuornos’s riveting reflections at the murders, felony battles, and media insurance, yet cross extra, revealing her fears and obsessions, her wealthy humor and empathy, and her sluggish disintegration as her execution approached. A candid existence tale advised to a depended on good friend, Dear Dawn is a compelling narrative, unwaveringly precise to its source.

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