{"product_id":"joe-cinques-consolation-helen-garner-9781925483574","title":"Joe Cinque's Consolation","description":"\u003cp\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. \n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHelen 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005\n\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the ABIA Book of the Year 2004\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR JOE CINQUE'S CONSOLATION \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness...\" Australian Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Garner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43174281281779,"sku":"9781925483574","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781925483574.jpg?v=1662063975","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/joe-cinques-consolation-helen-garner-9781925483574","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}