The hunting accident : a true story of crime and poetry /

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Author / Creator:Carlson, David L. (Cofounder of Opera-Matic), author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : First Second, 2017.
Description:437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11329209
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Other authors / contributors:Blair, Landis, illustrator.
ISBN:1626726760
9781626726765
Summary:It was a hunting accident that much Charlie is sure of. That's how his father, Matt Rizzo--a gentle intellectual who writes epic poems in Braille--had lost his vision. It's not until Charlie's troubled teenage years, when he's facing time for his petty crimes, that he learns the truth. Matt Rizzo was blinded by a shotgun blast to the face but it was while participating in an armed robbery. Newly blind and without hope, Matt began his bleak new life at Stateville Prison. In this unlikely place, Matt's life and very soul were saved by one of America's most notorious killers, Nathan Leopold Jr., of the infamous Leopold and Loeb.