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Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law

✍ Scribed by Garner, Helen

Book ID: 109746461
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 297 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780330421782

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✦ Synopsis

NOW A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MOTION PICTURE

A true story of death, grief and the law

****"Garner's book is a writer's profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as at precise moments"The Age

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...

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