Joe Cinque's Consolation

Joe Cinque's Consolation

by Helen Garner
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Publication Date: 10/11/2007

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A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.


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.


It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.


Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005

Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year 2004


PRAISE FOR JOE CINQUE'S CONSOLATION


"Garner's book is a writer's profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as at precise moments" The Age


*"*This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness..." Australian Book Review

ISBN:
9781742623870
9781742623870
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
10-11-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Helen Garner

Helen Garner (born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977, and immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene. She is known for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in her fiction, something that has brought her both praise and criticism, particularly with her novels, Monkey Grip and The Spare Room.

Throughout her career, Garner has written both fiction and non-fiction. She attracted controversy with her book The First Stone about a sexual harassment scandal in a university college. She has also written for film and theatre, and has consistently won awards for her work.

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