{"product_id":"compulsion-by-meyer-levin-9781941493021","title":"Compulsion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJudd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eObsessed with Nietzsche's idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighbourhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of Meyer Levin's classic literary thriller \u003cem\u003eCompulsion\u003c\/em\u003e reintroduces the fictionalized case of Leopold and Loeb—once considered the \"crime of the century\"—to a new generation. This incisive psychological portrait of two young murderers seized the imagination of an era and is generally recognized as paving the way for the first non-fiction novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCompulsion\u003c\/em\u003e forces us to ask what drives some further into darkness, and some to seek redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeartbreaking as it is gripping, \u003cem\u003eCompulsion\u003c\/em\u003e is written with a tense and penetrating force that led the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e to call Levin, \"the most significant Jewish writer of his times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46807785472236,"sku":"9781941493021","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ac437259b11dc39e3f65d17e1abec407.jpg?v=1757532297","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/compulsion-by-meyer-levin-9781941493021","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}