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Sto caricando le informazioni... This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trialdi Helen Garner
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. [b:This House of Grief|22814793|This House of Grief|Helen Garner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414003135l/22814793._SY75_.jpg|42364536] is not my standard fare, a grim courtroom drama featuring the trial of a father grieving his impending divorce who drove his car with his three sons into a dam and all drowned but the dad. Did he really have a coughing fit rendering him unconscious or was it an act of revenge? The story is spellbinding presenting insight into courtroom machinations, trauma and memory and the author is [a:Helen Garner|332165|Helen Garner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1332565089p2/332165.jpg], my new favorite writer. If you don't want to read about this event, read her diaries and novels. ( ) This was honestly an excrutiating read through no fault of the author. Helen Garner's exquisite writing was the only saving grace but it wasn't enough to carry this case of unlikable characters and incredibly dull court processes. The book is about the murder trial of Robert Farquharson who drowned his 3 sons in 2005. It highlighted everything I loathe about the legal system - its punitive and performative nature and exploitation of grief and trauma. Read this if you are interested in how the court system in Australia works from a layperson's view. If you want a much much better true crime book by Helen Garner, read Joe Cinque's Consolation instead. This is an Australian work of True Crime that some have compared to In Cold Blood, though I would not go that far. Robert and Cindy married young and quickly had 3 children. They separated, at Cindy's insistence, when the youngest was not yet two. Cindy was ready to move on, and had a new boyfriend. Robert was not ready to let Cindy go. On Father's Day 2005, Robert spent the day with the three children, ages 10,7,and 2, doing the usual things, lunch at a fast food place, a stop in a store to buy a Father's Day present. In the early evening, as Robert is driving the kids home to Cindy, his car plunges off the road into a dam. Robert escapes from the car, but the three children drown. After an investigation, Robert is charged with the murder of the three children, the allegation being that Robert drove the car off the road deliberately to punish Cindy. Overall, the question presented was whether this was a suicided attempt, an attempt to punish Cindy, or a tragic accident. Helen Garner, a novelist and a journalist, attended the trial(s), interviewed some of those involved, and ponders these questions, as she tries to come to grips with what happened. Can there ever be any explanation of whether or why a father, who seemed to truly love his children, would murder them? 3 stars nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"From one of Australia's most prolific writers comes the engrossing, definitive chronicle of an infamous true-crime saga, about a father suspected of murdering his three sons, the trial that gripped a nation, and the brutal spectacle of Australia's criminal justice system On the evening of September 4, 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, in rural Australia. His car veered off the road and plunged into a dam, and the boys, aged ten, seven, and two, drowned. Was this a tragic accident, or an act of revenge? The court case that followed became a national obsession-a macabre parade of witnesses, family members, and the defendant himself, each forced to relive the unthinkable foran audience of millions. Helen Garner, the celebrated writer and master chronicler of Australian life, was equally swept up in Farquharson's case. In This House of Grief, she tells the definitive and deeply absorbing story of it all, from the moment of the crash to the trial's final verdict. Garner takes her reader behind oak doors and captures a panorama of perspectives, from the defendant himself, to the team of prosecutors, to the jury. But most crucially, she delves deep into her own perspective as amember of the public, a voyeur peering into a family's darkest moments, and onto the exacting procedure of Australia's criminal justice system. The result is richly textured portrait-of a man and his broken life, of a community wracked by tragedy, and ofthe long and torturous road to closure. Written with Garner's trademark style-brisk and candid, yet never dismissive of her deeply flawed subjects-This House of Grief is a modern classic and a masterwork of literary journalism"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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