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Publication Name
Granta Books
ISBN
9781862070035

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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.

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Publisher
Granta Books
ISBN-13
9781862070035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
As if
Author
Blake Morrison
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Genre
Children & Young Adults
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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216mm
Item Width
135mm

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Blake Morrison
Topic Area
Human Biology, Criminal Law
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United Kingdom

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    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.

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