Joe Cinque's Consolation

Helen Garner

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Picador
01 September 2006

Biography; True crime

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

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

By: Helen Garner
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780330421782
ISBN 10: 0330421786
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 01 September 2006
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active