Facing the wind: a true story of tragedy and reconciliation

✍ Scribed by Salamon, Julie

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Beginning -- The Second Son -- Skills of Daily Living -- The Mothers -- The Happy Family -- Neither Here nor There -- One Sees, the Other Doesn't -- Acceptance -- The Ocularist -- Unraveling -- Afraid -- Clarity -- Reaction -- The Defendant -- The Postulant -- Case Number 092182 -- A New Person -- Father, Mother, Sister, Brother -- Real Life -- The Leper -- The Final Appeal -- The Meeting -- The Other Side of the Door -- Another Mother -- The Cycle of Life.;The story of Robert Rowe, his disabled son, his adopted child, his murder of his wife and three children, and his second wife. The author "addresses the questions of how human beings cope with the burdens that chance inflicts upon them, and what guilt and innocence consist of."--Jacket.

✦ Table of Contents

The Beginning --
The Second Son --
Skills of Daily Living --
The Mothers --
The Happy Family --
Neither Here nor There --
One Sees, the Other Doesn't --
Acceptance --
The Ocularist --
Unraveling --
Afraid --
Clarity --
Reaction --
The Defendant --
The Postulant --
Case Number 092182 --
A New Person --
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother --
Real Life --
The Leper --
The Final Appeal --
The Meeting --
The Other Side of the Door --
Another Mother --
The Cycle of Life.

✦ Subjects

Family violence--New York (State)--New York;SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology;Uxoricide--New York (State)--New York;Murder--New York (State)--New York;Murder;Uxoricide;Social conditions;Family violence;True crime stories;;Murder -- New York (State) -- New York;Family violence -- New York (State) -- New York;Uxoricide -- New York (State) -- New York;Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions;SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology;New York (State) -- New York;New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn