· The Arsonist, by the acclaimed author of The Tall Man, is the story of that man, the fire he lit, and the people who were killed. About the Author Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man- Death and Life on Palm Island () won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing, and a Ned Kelly Award for crime /5(72). · Chloe Hooper, The arsonist: A mind on fire (#BookReview) Janu. Janu. / whisperinggums. It may not have been the most sensible decision to read Chloe Hooper’s book, The arsonist, during Australia’s worst-ever bushfire week, but in fact I picked it up a few days before the crisis became evident, and once I started I couldn’t put it www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. · Chloe Hooper writes this non fiction account of the Central Gippsland fires where Brendan Sokaluk was convicted of 10 counts of arson causing death. Mostly this book reads like a long newspaper article. Despite the title of this book, there was much more focus on the fires, and some personal stories of the horrendo/5.
The Arsonist: a mind on fire. By Chloe Hooper. The Arsonist was awarded a Judge's Special Prize in the Victorian Community History Awards and is the first book to be read by the RHSV History Bookclub.. On the day that became known as Black Saturday, one man deliberately lit two fires near the small town of Churchill, Gippsland, then sat on the roof of his house and watched the flames. Free download or read online The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in October 15th , and was written by Chloe Hooper. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in ebook format. The main characters of this non fiction, crime story are. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire Kindle Edition by Chloe Hooper (Author) › Visit Amazon's Chloe Hooper Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Chloe Hooper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. out of 5 stars 94 ratings.
THE ARSONIST A Mind on Fire By Chloe Hooper To describe a bushfire is to describe a monster. We speak of flanks, fingers, tails and tongues, Chloe Hooper observes in “The Arsonist,” of a. With skill and sensitivity, Chloe Hooper has managed to find an unexpectedly human face and heart amid the blackest depths of Black Saturday.’ (Stephen Pyne, author of Fire: A Brief History) ‘Hooper drops the reader inside the Black Saturday brushfires to terrifying effect, then masterfully shifts from the physical realm to the existential – namely, how and why a particular evil manifests. As communities reeling from unspeakable loss demanded answers, detectives scrambled to piece together what really happened. They soon began to suspect the fires had been deliverately set by an arsonist. The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the puzzle of his mind. But this book is also the story of fire in the Anthropocene.
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