Amanda knox waiting to be heard kindle edition

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Please add your card again, or add a different card. If you receive an error message, please contact your library for help. Error loading page. Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading. Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir. Amanda Knox. In the fall of , twenty-year old college coed Amanda Knox left Seattle to study abroad in Perugia, Italy for one year.

But that November 1, her life was shattered when her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, was murdered in their apartment. Five days later, Amanda was taken into custody and charged by the Italian police; her arrest and the subsequent investigation ignited an international media firestorm.

Overnight, this ordinary young American student became the subject of intense scrutiny, forced to endure a barrage of innuendo and speculation. Two years later, after an extremely controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned.

But in an appeals court overturned her conviction and vacated the charges. Free at last, she immediately returned home to the U. Nonfiction Memoir True Crime Biography More details. Amanda Knox 5 books 62 followers. While attending university in Perugia, Italy, Amanda Knox's life was irrevocably changed the day one of her housemates, Meredith Kercher, was murdered.

Knox was convicted of the crime, and spent four years in prison. Maintaining her innocence, a retrial found her acquitted and able to return to America, but her legal battle with the Italian courts continue. She tells her side of the story in Waiting to Be Heard.

Search review text. Amanda Knox is certainly a polarizing figure. In Knox left the University of Washington and moved to Perugia, Italy for a year of studying abroad. The night after Halloween, Knox's British roommate Meredith Kercher was stabbed, brutalized and then left to bleed to death. Knox and her boyfriend of one week, Raffaele Sollecito, reported the murder to the police. Knox's strange behavior caught the attention of the Italian police, who immediately made her their prime suspect.

She was thrown in jail, along with her boyfriend and an immigrant drifter named Rudy Guede, and an international media sensation began. The police claimed that Amanda, her boyfriend, and Guede had tried to force Meredith into a twisted sex game. When she failed to play along, Amanda ordered the men to kill her.

Amanda Knox's trial quickly became tabloid fodder as every bit of her sex life and recreational drug use were aired in public. It helped that she was pretty - "a murderer with the face of an angel. They appealed, but it would be another three years before a higher Italian court would overturn the decision thanks to flawed DNA evidence, allowing Amanda to go free and return to America.

There have been many, many books written about this case, but this book marks the first time Amanda Knox herself has spoken in depth about her experiences. To be clear, I'm completely convinced of Knox's innocence and I was long before I read this book. The prosecution's theory of twisted, Satanic sex games always seemed insane to me. Amanda Knox had no previous history of violence or criminal record of any kind. Very few women commit violent crimes.

Fewer still commit crimes against other women. The likelihood of a woman with no background of violence or mental illness committing sexual violence against another woman is virtually nil. Knox's sexual promiscuity and marijuana use have often been held up as proof of her amorality, but the truth is that none of her behavior was particularly unusual for an American college student of her age.

Without overwhelming physical evidence to the contrary Amanda Knox should have always been presumed innocent, and that evidence has never materialized.

At any rate, the Amanda Knox that emerged at the other end of her four year ordeal and imprisonment is not the same girl that tramped off to Italy in hopes of 'finding herself'.

In her memoir, Amanda is very critical of that younger self. She paints a picture of a young woman who, despite her attempts to be grown up and worldly, was very naive and dangerously unguarded. Amanda is also incredibly blunt and honest in her writing. Perhaps it's because she knows that the most intimate details of her life are now common knowledge, but she also comes across as someone with a very forthright personality. She doesn't attempt to gloss over any of the embarrassing details.

The first third of the book presents an unflinching self-portrait of a young woman making a lot of mistakes as she comes of age.

Beginning with her questioning by the police and continuing through the rest of the book, Knox's memoir becomes a tale of justice twisted into monstrous injustice.

The Italian police and prosecutor pegged Amanda as their prime suspect long before there was anything to support this, and then proceeded to twist every piece of evidence they found to fit their increasingly salacious and convoluted theory of how the murder happened. They also subjected Amanda to harrowing psychological abuse during her interrogation and then during her time in prison.

They completely violated her privacy, 'raiding' her prison cell so they could carry off her personal diary, bugging conversations with her mother and her cell mates and then leaking every juicy morsel to the press. That's to say nothing of the incident where the prison guard collaborated with a doctor to lie to Knox, telling her she had contracted HIV, apparently in hopes that this would shake a confession out of her.

Amanda truly believed that the fact that she was so clearly innocent would ultimately exonerate her. The prosecutors took advantage of her hopeful idealism again and again. It was not until her initial conviction for the murder of her roommate that she realized her innocence meant nothing to these people. Knox would spend a total of four years in prison before the slow-moving wheels of Italian justice finally set her free.

The fact that she did not give up during this time and give in to bitterness says something about her true character. Instead she continued to study Italian and better herself by becoming very widely read. The woman that emerged from that experiences and from the pages of her memoir is still in many ways an idealist even if her optimism is now tempered by sober-minded realism. I would say that Amanda Knox did, in the end, do what she set out to accomplish by traveling to Italy: she matured and discovered a great deal about who she really is, even if this did not happen in quite the way she expected.

Elyse Walters. I just finished this book. I was fascinated with it I was intrigued as could be. I lost it at that part with tears. I figured nobody needs another review on this book—certainly not from me. I guessed there must have been thousands on Amazon. I went to check. The first review I read was a 1 star review. He, or she, was totally on the mark. Honestly, I get it. Error loading page. Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.

Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help. Search Search Search Browse menu. Sign in. Partner libraries New! Henderson Libraries. Get Hooked! Listen to the Stars! Waiting to be Heard. Description Creators Details Reviews Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox.

Waiting to Be Heard includes 24 pages of color photographs. Languages English. Why is availability limited?