You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] - Couverture souple

Hankinson, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911344323 ISBN 13 : 9781911344322

Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.

A letter arrives. You've got an appointment with a trainee clinical psychologist on April 29, 2008.

You don't attend.

Another letter arrives. It says they don't normally reschedule appointments, but they know this is hard for you, so they re-offering you another appointment. It's on May 13, 2008.

You don't attend.

Two years later you shoot three people and shoot yourself. You will be called a monster. You will be called evil. The prime minister, David Cameron, will stand up in Parliament and say you were a callous murderer, end of story. You have nine days and your whole life to prove you are more than a callous murderer.

Go.

Raoul Moat became notorious one hot July week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, shooting her in the stomach, and blinding a policeman, he disappeared into the woods of Northumberland, evading discovery for seven days. Eventually, cornered by the police, Moat shot himself. Here, Andrew Hankinson re-tells Moat's story using Moat's words, and those of the state services which engaged with him, bringing the reader disarmingly close, at all times, to the mind of Moat.

Revue de presse :

Immersing the reader in Moat's self-justifications, You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] is both an experiment in empathy and an exploration of the limits of empathy holding the reader hostage in the echo chamber of an angry and confused man's head. --Louis Theroux

We all know how the story ends, but this balled fist of a book reads like a thriller. --Dan Rhodes, author of When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow

Andrew Hankinson's You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] is an account of Moat's last days that, written in the second person and drawing on diary entries and previously unheard tapes, reads like a novel. --Tom Gatti , New Statesman

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Publications
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911344323
• ISBN 13: 9781911344322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224