As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312167776 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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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."
"Meditation on Childhood, Murder, and "The Why."" according to Kevin Currie-Knight. 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 t. Georgeann M. Jolley said "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 i. 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 e
As If (named from the expression he hears his children using to express skepticism) is an extended personal essay on the nature of childhood, including aggressive and sexual feelings that children have and those that other people have toward children. "The further they go from it and the more they talk to therapists, the more they will develop a story about what happened. 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. He had started out (naively) believing that this wa