Alex Marzano-Lesnevich has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 22 ratings. The most-rated is The Fact of a Body.
The Fact of a Body
Summary
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes - the moment she hears him speak of his crimes - she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case. Despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar. Crime, even the darkest and most unsayable acts, can happen to any one of us. As Alexandria pores over the facts of the murder, she finds herself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky's childhood. And by examining the details of Ricky's case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets and reckon with a past that colors her view of Ricky's crime. But another surprise awaits: She wasn't the only one who saw her life in Ricky's. An intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, The Fact of a Body is an audiobook not only about how the story of one crime was constructed - but about how we grapple with our own personal histories. Along the way it tackles questions about the nature of forgiveness and if a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth. This groundbreaking, heart-stopping work, 10 years in the making, shows how the law is more personal than we would like to believe - and the truth more complicated and powerful than we could ever imagine.
©2017 Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (P)2017 Macmillan Audio
L'Empreinte
Summary
Etudiante en droit à Harvard, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich est une farouche opposante à la peine de mort. Jusqu'au jour où son chemin croise celui d'un tueur emprisonné en Louisiane, Rick Langley, dont la confession l'épouvante et ébranle toutes ses convictions. Pour elle, cela ne fait aucun doute : cet homme doit être exécuté. Bouleversée par cette réaction viscérale, Alexandria ne va pas tarder à prendre conscience de son origine en découvrant un lien entre son passé, un secret de famille et cette terrible affaire qui réveille en elle des sentiments enfouis. Elle n'aura alors cesse d'enquêter inlassablement sur les raisons profondes qui ont conduit Langley à commettre ce crime épouvantable. Dans la lignée de séries documentaires comme Making a Murderer, ce récit au croisement du thriller, de l'autobiographie et du journalisme d'investigation, montre clairement combien la loi est quelque chose d'éminemment subjectif, la vérité étant toujours plus complexe et dérangeante que ce que l'on imagine. Aussi troublant que déchirant.
©2017 / 2019 Titre original : "The Fact of a Body, a Murder and a Memoir". Éditeur original : Flatiron Books / Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / Sonatine Éditions pour la traduction française (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris