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Jonathan Trigell

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Obras de Jonathan Trigell

Boy A (2004) 270 copias
Genus (2011) 45 copias
Cham (2007) 26 copias

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I have wanted to read this book for a long time. It was well written; there was nothing in the writing that made me feel uncomfortable or irritated. The story was interesting and had echoes of the story of two boys in the UK who abducted and killed a young child. I really felt for the main character - I wanted him to succeed in his new life. He had appeared to have moved on and that prison had done its job. It has provoked my thinking in relation to how I would feel about being close to an individual who had committed a really terrible crime in their youth but had since 'done their time' and become an adult.… (más)
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Fluffyblue | 36 reseñas más. | Oct 12, 2017 |
Boy A participated in the commission of a heinous crime at the age of 9. Fifteen years later, he is released from custody, given a new identity, Jack Burridge, and sets about to build a life for himself.

He gets a job, makes friends, and gets a girlfriend. He keeps reassuring himself that he is 'normal,' but the tabloids, knowing only that he has been released, but not his identity or location, scream that the public deserves to know where he is.

The book raises interesting issues about crimes committed by children and about the role the media plays in crime and punishment. It is a very quick read.… (más)
 
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arubabookwoman | 36 reseñas más. | Apr 25, 2017 |
thoughtful and wistful...

Spoiler alert... I am not sure how much of the narrative is carried by the insinuations of innocence of Boy A in the story, how much you want to believe everything will work out for him as the story describes Boy B's character. I just finished Scaredy Cat by Marc Billingham which had a similar childhood folie a deux at it's heart; and the discovery that Boy A was guilty after all was not a real surprise, as I felt that he would not have seemed so repentant a character if he had not been guilty.
Despite the subject matter, an enjoyable read.
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jkdavies | 36 reseñas más. | Jun 14, 2016 |
This book was something else.. dystopian vignettes of human, and Improved human life, dozens of characters, and the book subtly teased out the connections between them. The themes of beauty, art and illusion, are twined in with brutish human life and sterile generich life (and I loved that generich was one letter from generic!)
It has subtle flowing language throughout - I learned the words inutile and fubsy in a couple of paragraphs. And then there's this...

"Whole nations can be wrong and so often have been. Quantity does not create sense, but only a sense of sense. if something is not real then it must be imagined. The fact that the same delusion is shared by two people or ten or ten million doesn't make it more real, only more dangerous."… (más)
 
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