![]() ![]() Who uses the author as a convenient chauffeur to drive her home after her hormone shots Serena Dawes, whom Cecil Beaton once called "one of the most perfect natural beauties I've ever photographed," now in middle age and Joe Odom, a ne'er-do-well lawyer, piano player and tour guide, who drags antiques and an entourage of eccentrics to reside in one historic house after another from eviction to eviction the Lady Chablis, a radiant black drag queen The first half of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is about the people Mr. The book he has written based on his eight years of living part-time in Savannah is a peculiar combination of true crime and travelogue. York are invited to midnight voodoo ceremonies in graveyards. To observe as fodder for a novel? What he found was a cultured but isolated backwater, a town where who your great-grandparents were still matters, where anti-Yankee resentments are never far from the surface and where writers from New When he began living part of the year in Savannah, Ga., John Berendt, a columnist for Esquire and a former editor of New York magazine, was looking for - what? Respite from the big city? A charming little Southern town dripping with humidity and history Seems like we need a little of both tonight." The half-hour after midnight is for doin' evil. ![]() The half-hour before midnight is for doin' good. Half an hour before midnight to half an hour after midnight. HE voodoo priestess looked across the table at her wealthy client, a man on trial for murder: "Now, you know how dead time works. ![]()
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