January 2012 Guest Editor Simon Lelic selects As If...
A recent entrant into my ever-changing list of favourite books, this is another work I could read again and again – were it not so intensely heartbreaking. Although actually, that hasn’t stopped me, and nor should it any parent, son or daughter. I discovered it in researching my latest novel, The Child Who, and have since forced it upon virtually everyone I know.
Gitta Sereny’s series of articles for the Independent on Sunday Review are the only other pieces of journalism to come out of the James Bulger case that come close to the standard Morrison sets – but my advice would be to read both.
This volume seeks to expose the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding in relation to the Bulger murder trial. People have almost become desensitized to random murder. It is often explained away by madness, sexual fantasy or rejection.
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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This volume seeks to expose the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding in relation to the Bulger murder trial. People have almost become desensitized to random murder.
As If features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Ebook, Paperback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. In Stock.
As If was written by Blake Morrison and published by Granta Books
As If has 262 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. In Stock.
