Joe Cinque's Consolation

Garner, Helen
Joe Cinque's Consolation

Joe Cinque's Consolation

Garner, Helen

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In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests – most of them university students – had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of Rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.

Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as "evil"; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care.

It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.

Author:   Garner, Helen
Publisher:   Picador
ISBN:  

9780330421782


Pages:   348
Publication Date:   01 September 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Bind Format:   Paperback
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In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests – most of them university students – had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of Rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.

Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as "evil"; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care.

It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.

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Author:   Garner, Helen
Publisher:   Picador
ISBN:  

9780330421782


Pages:   348
Publication Date:   01 September 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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