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This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

Garner, Helen
Weinman, Sarah

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral LawTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 059347077X
ISBN13: 9780593470770
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The engrossing true-crime classic from a master anatomist of ordinary people in difficult times (New York Times), that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure

On the evening of Father's Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their mom's house when the car veered off the road and plunged into a dam. Farquharson survived the crash, but his boys 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 for an audience of millions.

In This House of Grief, celebrated writer Helen Garner tells the definitive and deeply absorbing story of it all, from crash to final verdict. Through a panoply of perspectives, including her own as a member of the public, Garner captures the exacting procedure and brutal spectacle of Australia's criminal justice system. The result is a richly textured portrait--of a man and his broken life, of a community wracked by tragedy, and of the long and torturous road to closure.

Considered a literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner's incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. Brisk, candid, and never dismissive of its flawed subjects, This House of Grief is a masterwork of literary journalism.

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