This House Of Grief. The Story Of A Murder Trial

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 300 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A gripping account of a murder trial in which few of the participants act and react in ways we might predict. Its an examination not just of what happened, but also of what we prefer to believe and what we cannot face believing.Julian BarnesGarners spare, clean style flowers into magnificent poetry. Australian Book Review‘This House of Grief has all the trademark Helen Garner touches: harrowing scenes recorded without restraint or censorship; touching observations of characters weaknesses; wry moments of humor. Guardian‘The twists and turns of this true-crime story are, in Garners hands, more engrossing and dramatic than any thriller. Really, this is the kind of book youll devour in one go. Age‘Clear-eyed and deeply moving…Garners skills as a novelist combine with her journalist incisiveness to give a vivid, compassionate and complex assessment of the crime and the societal issues surrounding it…This House of Grief is a book that preys on the mind—its themes are enormous, classical and highly contemporary. NZ Herald‘Garner sat through [all the trials]: sifting the evidence, observing the duelling lawyers, digging deep into the relationships which contributed to the catastrophe. She has turned a courtroom drama into something deeply human. Australian Womens WeeklyPraise for Helen Garners The Spare Room:"Helen Garner is a great writer."—Peter Carey"Swift, beautiful, and relentless."—Alice Sebold"The Joan Didion of Australia"—Los Angeles Times"Truthful, fearless, passionate."—Kate GrenvilleOn the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother when his car plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven, and two, drowned. Was this an act of deliberate revenge or a tragic accident The court case became Helen Garners obsession. She was in the courtroom every day of Farquharsons trial and subsequent retrial, along with countless journalists and the families of both the accused and his former wife.In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. At its core is a search for truth that takes author and reader through complex psychological terrain. Garner exposes, with great compassion, that truth and justice are as complex as human frailty and morality.Part of a nonfiction tradition that began with Truman Capotes In Cold Blood and continues in the works of Janet Malcolm, Erroll Morris, and others.Helen Garner, born in 1942, is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent novel The Spare Room was published to critical acclaim in 2010.

ISBN: 9781922079206