This House of Grief

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780553387438 Author(s): Helen Garner Format: Hardcover Year: 2023 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 320

Description: The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA‚ A?Â?A‚ The engrossing true-crime classic from one of AustraliaA?s most acclaimed writers, that follows aA‚ man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closureA‚ A?Â?'This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood.'A?Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Shrines of GaietyOn the evening of FatherA?s Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their momA?s house when the car veered off the road and plunged into a dam. Farquharson survived the crash, but his boys drowned. Was this a tragic accident, or an act of revenge? The court case that followed became a national obsessionA?a macabre parade of witnesses, family members, and the defendant himself, each forced to relive the unthinkable for an audience of millions.In This House of Grief, celebrated writer Helen Garner tells the definitive and deeply absorbing story of it all, from crash to final verdict. Through a panoply of perspectives, including her own as a member of the public, Garner captures the exacting procedure and brutal spectacle of AustraliaA?s criminal justice system. The result is a richly textured portraitA?of a man and his broken life, of a community wracked by tragedy, and of the long and torturous road to closure.Considered a literary institution in Australia, Helen GarnerA?s incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. Brisk, candid, and never dismissive of its flawed subjects, This House of Grief is a masterwork of literary journalism.

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