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'In Law and Literature, a subject offered to the University of Melbourne’s final-year law students, they study Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man and Helen Garner’s Joe Cinque’s Consolation. In both books the law fails. Or as Gary Cazalet, who got the subject up and running, says of Hooper’s book: ‘It is an indictment of our legal system and it isn’t.’ I’d put it another way. In both books the victims’ families find, in law, neither solace nor justice. Justice, that is, the way we laypeople like to imagine it: morally purifying, thunderously absolute, a revelation, a release—justice of the kind that law can rarely give us.' (Author's introduction)
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Subjects:
- The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island 2008 single work prose
- Joe Cinque's Consolation 2004 single work prose
- When It Rains : A Memoir 2010 single work autobiography
- Reading by Moonlight : How Books Saved a Life 2010 single work autobiography
- When Horse Became Saw : A Family's Journey Through Autism 2011 single work autobiography
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