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Chargement... Happy Like Murdererspar Gordon Burn
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An account of two people - Fred and Rose West - who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single women. Investigated and told by one of the greatest journalists and writers of the last twenty years, this is the most powerful and upsetting true crime book you will ever read. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book is not for everyone. For me, its value is in its matter-of-fact depiction of a society in which poverty is all-pervasive, and families well beyond dysfunctional are the norm. These are the people, especially children and teenagers, who were the victims, and the perpetrators, of the violence and abuse, the people who slipped beneath the net of social services--the throw-away people. I found it amazing how long the Wests were able to brutalize their own children with no one noticing, or reporting it. Not only were the visible signs of abuse and the children's frequent absences ignored at school, there were frequent police visits to their home for drug arrests of the West's lodgers during which the plight of the children might easily have been noticed.
On the other hand, I found Burns' writing style to be extremely annoying. The book contains numerous repetitions--of sentences and even whole paragraphs, some separated by many pages, but some occurring with a few pages. This was so ubiquitous that I have to assume it was purposeful, but had I been the editor it certainly would not have remained. ( )