This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

ISBN: 055338743X

Author: Garner, Helen

Condition: New

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The engrossing true-crime classic from one of Australias most acclaimed writers, that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure "This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood."-Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Shrines of GaietyOn the evening of Fathers Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their moms 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 obsession-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 Australias criminal justice system. The result is a richly textured portrait-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 Garners 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.