Happy Like Murderers

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Burns started by writing about the world he knew. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the only child of a mother who worked at Binns, the city's department store, and a father who was a paint-sprayer. He had an outside lavatory, an uncle who kept pigeons and a regular place in the teenage queue for football stars' autographs outside St James's Park. Read about the Faber story, find out about our unique partnerships, and learn more about our publishing heritage, awards and present-day activity.

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Estás preparado a enfrentar una historia realmente perturbadora??? Pues si te gusta investigar sobre asesinos seriales y más sabiendo que esta historia es real, este libro es para tí. Muy decepcionada con este libro. El tema que trata me fascina y la historia empieza muy bien, pero a medida que avanza la información se va repitiendo una y otra vez (hay frases que se repiten literalmente varias veces). Además está escrito como a trompicones, apenas hay organización cronológica, de manera que es muy difícil seguir los acontecimientos, y no hay ningún tipo de estructuración temática; en definitiva, parece que ni el mismo autor sabe muy bien qué quiere contarnos ni cómo hacerlo, más allá de unos cuantos datos aleatorios.With his first forensic commitment to get behing the tabloid headlines Burn brilliantly reinvents reportorial writing ... Startlingly original.' - Matt Seaton, Esquire Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-18 10:00:46 Boxid IA40113119 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West’s relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in a powerful, compelling narrative. He had lived in Chelsea for many years but remained close to the north and had recently bought a house in Northumberland. He is survived by his long-standing partner Carol Gorner.

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Fue un libro difícil de leer por dos razones: la primera y la más evidente es por los hechos que describe, la segunda es por el estilo narrativo, por momentos sentía que no avanzaba nada. Here’s a good question for all you lovers of literature – what’s the connection between Fred West and the Booker Prize? Answer: one of the 11 females he killed was Martin Amis’s cousin. Once Upon a True Crime investigates the real-life murders that inspired some of the acclaimed authors’ most famous novels. Lifers (2016) - Geoffrey Wansellurn:lcp:happylikemurdere0000burn:epub:7966c6c1-4ad3-45a2-ba8a-b3f4cb92be69 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier happylikemurdere0000burn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t46r31j6z Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780571265060 So what made this book so hard to get through? Although details of the murders are few, there is a lot known about life at 25 Cromwell Road, in the main from the recollections of three of the West's children. For this book, Burn extensively researched and interviewed family, friends and co-workers and has built up a detailed picture of The West's lives - not just the major events but their day-to-day routines over the years. And it is this emerging picture that is so upsetting to read. Hence a reader who makes it to the end of this book, may be have to cast about for another account to get the complete picture. Now I'm was in this boat, and though I felt I should while the facts from Happy Like Murderers are fresh in the mind, to be honest, reading another book on the Wests was not a prospect I relished. However I did end up making a trip to the local library and skimmed through a couple of tomes to answer some of my questions on the case. Of the several I looked at, I would recommned Colin Wilson's The Corpse Garden (True Crime Library/Forum Press 1998) which is a concise but through account of the facts of the case with some interesting psychological analysis thrown in.

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Gordon Burn was a unique, brilliant writer ( Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Alma Cogan) and this book takes on the awful, awful story of Fred and Rose West, one of the most ghastly murder cases ever to have happened in England. In 1995 I went down to stay with him and Carol in a cottage they rented for a few weeks in Cornwall. He had just finished writing his second novel, Fullalove, and gave me the typescript to read, a potentially hazardous privilege. What if I didn't like it? I loved it, couldn't put it down, stayed up all night reading. I was relieved, chuffed and proud to have a friend who had done something so damn good. As soon as he got up I told him so, but I'm sure he already knew. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7857228M Openlibrary_edition Es un libro que me hizo sentir sucia, monstruosa, y a la vez, decente, pues por mas que pueda tener esas ideas en la cabeza, (y de cierta forma es lo que el quería, enfrentarlo a uno con su monstruo interior) realizarlas me parecería una atrocidad. See Faber authors in conversation and hear readings from their work at Faber Members events, literary festivals and at book shops across the UK.Debo reconocer que Gordón hizo un gran trabajo de investigación sobre este caso tan sórdido, no necesito ponerle un extra ya que la historia de por si se cuenta sola, te pone en la perspectiva de como fue el origen de esta pareja y de alguna de las victimas. Los West torturaron, secuestraron y asesinaron a una serie de mujeres por un período que ronda los 20 años. En 1994 la policía encontró enterrado en el jardín del matrimonio, el cuerpo de su hija Heather. urn:oclc:805034026 Republisher_date 20120414044047 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120413024002 Scanner scribe8.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition)