Joe Cinque's Consolation
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lmn60
of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 7/15/2012
This book is in a Controlled Release!
lmn60 of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 7/15/2012 This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
Another copy of this extraordinary book that has fallen into my hands - this copy is now registered and ready to travel! I read this one several years ago for my 'real life' bookclub and was extremely impressed by it then... Hopefully a new reader will find and enjoy this one, too!
'A TRUE STORY OF DEATH, GRIEF AND THE LAW
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.'
'A TRUE STORY OF DEATH, GRIEF AND THE LAW
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.'
Journal Entry 2 by lmn60 at Green Sage Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Sunday, August 12, 2012
lmn60 at Green Sage Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Sunday, August 12, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (8/12/2012 UTC) at Green Sage Cafe in Templestowe, Victoria Australia
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This book has been recommended, but it really is quite big. Every time I pick it up it scares me. I will put it on my TBR pile and one day when I am feeling particularly courageous I will give it a go.
A journalistic account of a true crime story that I would not have realised was set in Australia from the cover or the title. I should remember accounts of this in the papers at the time, unfortunately none of it sounded familiar.
Passed on to my sister.
