The speed queen

Stewart O'Nan

earliest edition we have, 1997 Doubleday, 1997 212 pages

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Marjorie Standiford sits on Oklahoma's death row, hours away from execution, speaking into a tape recorder, telling her life story. She's answering questions about how she became the Speed Queen, one of the Sonic Killers - how mainlining speed with her husband, Lamont, and her lover, Natalie, grew into dealing, how dealing grew into robbery, and robbery into mass murder. She's telling her story because she wants to...

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Editions we hold

The speed queen edition · 2001 · Grove Press · 212 pages
A Toda Pastilla paperback · 2001 · Galaxia Gutenberg · 259 pages · 9788481092967
Die Speed Queen edition · 1999 · Rowohlt · 253 pages
Die Speed Queen. hardcover · 1998 · Rowohlt, Reinbek · 253 pages · 9783498050269
The speed queen edition · 1997 · Doubleday · 212 pages

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