Gone Boy: A Walkabout - Softcover

Gibson, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385720041 ISBN 13: 9780385720045

Publisher: Anchor Books, 2000

Synopsis

The father of a murdered eighteen-year-old boy describes the ordeal of his son's death and his research into the culture of violence and incompetence that surrounded the murder. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Gregory Gibson is an antiquarian book dealer who lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

From the Inside Flap:

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When Greg Gibson's oldest son, Galen--eighteen, bright, unique, full of promise--was shot and killed by a fellow student at his school, Gibson found himself undertaking an unusual, highly personal investigation to discover the truth about his son's murder. He felt he owed it to his son, and he knew the process would help save his own sanity.

Gibson's journey begins with a visit to the man who sold the killer the gun and builds to an astonishing interview with the killer's parents--hardworking Taiwanese immigrants as anguished as the Gibsons about their own "gone boy." Along the way, he meets investigators, lawyers, psychiatrists, conspiracy theorists, bureaucrats, and more than a few lost souls.

An important exploration of gun violence in America, this unforgettable book shows a man talking his way out of grief with toughness, honesty, and a sense of humor as dry and bracing as a shot of good whisky. It also tells the unsentimental story of a

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385720041
• ISBN 13: 9780385720045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275