Wolf
Douglas A. Martin
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Begun as a response to a front page photograph illustrating a tragedy that the media quickly sensationalized in the early 2000’s, Wolf tells the composite truth of two brothers, a family friend, a father, and a murder. Skeptical of news cycles and the way trials become page-turners, this book forgoes the standards of true crime: quick conclusions and moralistic underpinnings. Instead, motivated by an attempt to extend empathy, its reconstruction unfolds in tones of witness and meditation. What results is a story about the extremities to which deeply unchecked abuse and ongoing trauma can push a family.
Kundenbewertungen
whiteness, childhood, working class, criminal, media, Southern Gothic, white working class, trailer park, news, law, policing, white, police, meditative, gay, poverty, trauma, brothers, murder, true crime, child abuse, In Cold Blood, sexual abuse, experimental prose, pedophilia, family, relationships, queer, psychological, fatherhood, interiority, son, class, men, patricide, newspapers, father, sexual assault, father-son relationship, trial, judicial system, mobile home, vignette, witness, neighbor, Appalachia, experimental fiction, PTSD