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Publisher details
- Author
- Helen Garner
- Publisher
- Picador
- Genres
- Biography and Memoir, Non Fiction
- Released
- 01 August, 2004
- ISBN
- 9780330421782
Joe Cinque’s Consolation
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Synopsis
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.#99 in Australia's Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads
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