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The Wicked Boy de Kate Summerscale

The Wicked Boy

Autor Kate Summerscale
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2017

Observăm în The Wicked Boy aceeași precizie chirurgicală a cercetării istorice care a consacrat-o pe Kate Summerscale drept o voce autoritară în genul „true crime”. Această ediție în format paperback ne poartă în vara anului 1895, în estul Londrei, reconstruind meticulos cazul fraților Robert și Nattie Coombes. Premisa este pe cât de simplă, pe atât de tulburătoare: doi copii care, timp de zece zile după moartea mamei lor, cheltuiesc bani pe vizite la teatru și excursii la mare, pretinzând că sunt singuri acasă.

Ceea ce distinge acest volum de o simplă cronică judiciară este modul în care autoarea integrează anxietățile sociale ale epocii. Remarcăm o analiză fascinantă a impactului publicațiilor „penny dreadful” asupra minții adolescentine, un precursor al dezbaterilor moderne despre influența mass-media. Stilul narativ este unul echilibrat, evitând senzaționalismul în favoarea unei atmosfere dense, susținute de cele 16 pagini de ilustrații originale. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane de Jane Housham vor aprecia modul în care Kate Summerscale extinde perspectiva dincolo de actul violenței, explorând capacitatea de redempțiune a individului în cadrul sinistru de la Broadmoor.

Cartea se plasează natural în bibliografia autoarei, continuând explorarea zonelor obscure ale istoriei britanice începută în The Suspicions of Mr Whicher și rafinată în Mrs Robinson's Disgrace. Dacă lucrările anterioare se concentrau pe scandaluri sociale sau investigații detectivistice, The Wicked Boy este, în esență, un studiu despre evoluția conceptelor de copilărie și responsabilitate penală, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra vieții de după condamnare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143110460
ISBN-10: 0143110462
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 133 x 199 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie socială și criminologie care caută mai mult decât o relatare a unei crime. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a sistemului judiciar victorian și a modului în care societatea trata „nebunia” infantilă. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum un caz de matricid a forțat o întreagă națiune să își reevalueze teoriile despre educație și moralitate.

Despre autor

Kate Summerscale este o autoare de succes internațional, membră a Royal Society of Literature din 2010. Este recunoscută pentru abilitatea de a transforma arhivele prăfuite în narațiuni captivante, fiind laureată a premiului Samuel Johnson pentru The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, lucrare ce a fost adaptată și într-o serie TV de succes. Opera sa, care include titluri precum The Haunting of Alma Fielding și The Book of Phobias and Manias, explorează constant intersecția dintre psihologia umană, evenimentele istorice reale și percepția publică a acestora în Marea Britanie.

Descriere scurtă

Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime BookFrom the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt was suspicious. When she eventually forced the brothers to open the house to her, she found the badly decomposed body of their mother in a bedroom upstairs. Robert and Nattie were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. Nattie struck a plea and gave evidence against his brother. The court heard testimony about Robert's severe headaches, his fascination with violent criminals and his passion for 'penny dreadfuls', the pulp fiction of the day. He seemed to feel no remorse for what he had done, and neither the prosecution nor the defense could find a motive for the murder. The judge sentenced the thirteen-year-old to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Yet Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert--one that would have profoundly shocked anyone who thought they understood the Wicked Boy. At a time of great tumult and uncertainty, Robert Coombes's case crystallized contemporary anxieties about the education of the working classes, the dangers of pulp fiction, and evolving theories of criminality, childhood, and insanity. With riveting detail and rich atmosphere, Kate Summerscale recreates this terrible crime and its aftermath, uncovering an extraordinary story of man's capacity to overcome the past.

Notă biografică

Kate Summerscale, formerly the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, is the author of The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Prize. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher was a #1 bestseller in the UK, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, was short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Summerscale lives in London.

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FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER

'The queen of Victorian true crime is back' MAIL ON SUNDAY

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

On 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother Nattie set out from their East London home to watch a cricket match. Over the next ten days they spend extravagantly, visiting the theatre and eating out. The boys tell neighbours their father has gone to sea, and their mother to visit family in Liverpool. But when a strange smell begins to emanate from the house, the police are called. What they find throws the press into a frenzy - and the boys into a highly publicised trial.

'An accomplished feat of research and storytelling . . . Wrapping controversial issues into a tense, fluent narrative' HILARY MANTEL

'Riveting . . . Once again the author proves a subtle pathologist, her scalpel slicing away the skin of late-Victorian Britain' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'A remarkably heartening story' JOHN PRESTON, DAILY MAIL

'An extraordinary book which will stay with you' DAILY EXPRESS

'It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed' SPECTATOR

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Recenzii

No other writer could have made the Coombes case so fascinating and so vivid ... It would be impossible to read this dry-eyed
An extraordinary book which will stay with you
Gripping... Summerscale is an exquisite storyteller. She is judicious in her use of detail, subtle in her unspoken connections between the past and the present.... This is the story of one wicked boy, but it is also a plea for compassion and empathy
For her latest forensic investigation into the throttled passions of Victorian family life, Summerscale has moved forward 35 years to 1895 and turned away from the provincial bourgeois home to the working-class terraces of London's East End ... [a] fine account ... subtle and confident
Unexpectedly touching... a fascinating account of a murder and its endless reverberations
As Kate Summerscale has proved before, she has a wonderfully sharp eye for stories which turn out not to be quite what they seem... a remarkably heartening story
Compelling... it gripped and stoked the national imagination, just as it surely will again
A work of social history that is as compassionate as it is absorbing... we almost feel we are wandering through these scenes ourselves
Ultimately, the narrative is an exploration of Victorian attitudes to juvenile crime, and this pacy slice of social history acts as both hawk-eyed prosecution and gentle defence
An absorbing account of fin-de-siecle Britain... [and] a powerful story about vulnerable and neglected children, both then and now
It's a fascinating story and Summerscale tells it beautifully... [Her] sympathetic and intelligent study is full of social interest too. I can't imagine that it could have been done better
The challenge, to which Ms Summerscale rises wonderfully well, is to sustain the reader's interest in him for the remaining 50-odd years of his life . Evocative . Through a mixture of serendipity and meticulous research, Ms Summerscale is able to add one final, heart-stopping twist
Redemption comes twice in this account . An extremely touching twist . Scrupulous and occasionally startling
Summerscale has performed a stunning post-mortem of "the horror" at number 35 . Talk about bringing history alive
It is above all her skill in creating a context for the crime which makes The Wicked Boy so readable . the sounds and smells of the East End docks, from which their father set sail, are evoked with particular vividness. More fascinating still are the ideas of the age ... An extraordinary tale of redemption
Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the story of real-life redemption that it brings to light