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^ Read ! As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood by Blake Morrison ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood Meditation on Childhood, Murder, and "The Why." In Liverpool, two ten year old boys have murdered a two year old boy. They encountered him - they did not know him before - in a shopping square, took him by the hand, walked him two miles to the train tracks, and bashed his skull in with bricks (and some suspect, sexually abused him). The two year old boy allegedly did not put up much fight the entire way. He was two, and two year olds are trusting.Blake Morrison, an Englishman and father of three
| Title | : | As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312167776 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
Meditation on Childhood, Murder, and "The Why." In Liverpool, two ten year old boys have murdered a two year old boy. They encountered him - they did not know him before - in a shopping square, took him by the hand, walked him two miles to the train tracks, and bashed his skull in with bricks (and some suspect, sexually abused him). The two year old boy allegedly did not put up much fight the entire way. He was two, and two year olds are trusting.Blake Morrison, an Englishman and father of three, was asked by the New Yorker magazine to cover and write about the trial. Morrison is interested first and fo. "As If" makes us think. Blake Morrison's "As If" was this reader's favorite find of the year. Morrison finds himself compelled to view the unfolding of Liverpool's James Bulger murder trial, and in doing so is forced to assess his own life in relation to what it means to grow up "normally". Who is truly guilty or innocent in this shocking act of two ten-year olds murdering a two-year old? He says he must determine the "why" of the crime. As we sink with him into the morass, we find that the answer becomes more and more elusive, and we wonder how different these families are from . The most profound book I have ever read. A Customer I bought this novel in the summer while I was in England. A few weeks ago, when I was looking for a book to read, I came across As If on my book shelf. Since then I have read it three times. Morrison made me ask questions of myself and of society that I would have never asked otherwise. He explains the trial, not only in a factual manner, but in an extrordinarily philosophical way as well.
Do the boys themselves know why? "I don't think they'll ever know," Morrison writes. But whether that's a true story is very debatable There isn't going to be the single answer that we all crave." And so Morrison turned inward to look for answers, mulling over his own experiences of being a child and being a parent. Three years later, the case was still haunting him, so he returned to the subject to examine its impact on a more personal level. "The further they go from it and the more they talk to therapists, the more they will develop a story about what happened. With its flurry of quotations and ruminations, this book won't be to everyone's taste, but it does illustrate an intriguingly personal approach to understanding a crime. As If (named from the expression he hears his children using to express skepticism) is an extended personal ess
25,000 first printing. A journalist for the The New Yorker takes a close-up look at a chilling 1993 murder case in Great Britain in which two ten-year-old boys killed a younger boy. Tour."
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