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'We must condemn a little more,and understand a little less.' John Major on the Bulger killing, 1993.
We've grown almost desentsitized to horror.We can even explain the causes of random murder to ourselves: madness,sexual fantasy,rejection . . .
But one event in recent times (then 1997) reduced every person to silence: the beating to death of the infant James Bulger by two ten-year-old boys.
All over the world the images on the murky video film of the two children leading the toddler by his hand looped uselessly in peolple's minds.How and why did two innocent boys kill another? Is childhood innocence a myth? And what punishment could fit such a crime - assuming that children are fit to stand trial for murder?
Blake Morrison's quest in his unforgettably honest and unsettling new book is a refusal of John Major's glib sound bite.At the trial in Preston,he discovered a sad ritual of condemnation with two bewildered children at its centre.For a month,policemen and witnesses told the How of it.The truth of the Why lay elsewhere.
Morrison went to Liverpool,and sought explanations in the boys' families,and looked at the violence that saturates the minds of modern children.He delved deep into his relations with his own kids,and from his own childhood remembered how easy it is to go along with cruelty.
Acutely sensitive to the sadness that is in families,Blake Morrison gives a devastating portrait of the majesty and impotence of the law when faced with a tragedy that has wrecked three families lives.
'As If' is a book that exposes the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding.
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