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  Joe Cinque's Consolation

 
Joe Cinque's Consolation
Author:    Helen Garner
Subtitle:    A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
ISBN:    9780330421782
ISBN-10:    0330421786
Publisher:    Pan Macmillan Australia
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    348
Language:    English
RRP: $24.95
PRICE: $23.45
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Book Description:
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.


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Review by Rowie 
This book is shocking to read because it is real. An intelligent law student, her doting partner, Joe, a murder, a dinner party full of guests who were aware of a sordid plan.

Helen Garner’s narrative is compelling, as she explores the complex legal and emotional issues that arose, while maintaining a firm grip on the reader’s interest.

I found the intimate portrait of grief, which Garner paints as a response to her developing friendship with Joe's bereaved parents fascinating—a truly personal insight into the story.

Joe Cinque's Consolation is a beautifully written book which manages to inspire hope despite its tragic core. It is still in my thoughts.

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