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As If by Blake Morrison (Hardcover, 1997)
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This volume seeks to expose the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding in relation to the Bulger murder trial. People have almost become desensitized to random murder. It is often explained away by madness, sexual fantasy or rejection. One murder in recent times reduced every person to silence: the abduction and beating to death of a helpless infant by two ten-year-old boys. How and why did two innocent boys kill another? Is childhood innocence a myth? And what punishment could fit such a crime, assuming that children are fit to stand trial for murder? Blake Morrison went to the trial in Preston, and discovered a sad ritual of condemnation with two bewildered children at the centre. He looked for possible explanations in the boys' families, their dreary environment, their fantasies, their exposure to violent films. He evokes the worst feats of parents through candid and raw memories of his relations with his own children, and delves into his own childhood to reveal the worst thing he has ever done, to show how easy it is to go along with cruelty. Blake Morrison is the author of two collections of poetry, Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper , and is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry . His memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father? won the Waterstone's/Esquire Award for non-fiction and the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1993.Product Identifiers
PublisherGranta Books
ISBN-139781862070035
eBay Product ID (ePID)91718806
Product Key Features
Book TitleAs if
AuthorBlake Morrison
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary Theory
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
GenreChildren & Young Adults
Number of Pages256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorBlake Morrison
Topic AreaHuman Biology, Criminal Law
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 10 Dec, 2019
Compelling reading
Disturbing at times in his honesty, Morrison forces you to question events in your own childhood in an attempt to understand the motive of the crime. A challenging but worthy read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Jan, 2017
It tell the true story
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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