Gone Boy A Father's Search for the Truth in His Son's Murder

by Gibson, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9781556439599
• ISBN10: 1556439598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-21
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibsonrs"s eighteen-year-old son Galen was murdered, shot in the doorway of his college library by a fellow student gone berserk. The killer was jailed for life, but for Gibson the tragedy was still unfolding. The morning of the shooting, he learned, college officials had intercepted but not stopped a box of ammunition addressed to the murderer. They were also anonymously warned of the intended killing but failed to call the police. After years of frustrated attempts to find peace, Gibson woke one morning to a terrible vision of his own rage and helplessness. He knew he had to do something before he destroyed himself, and he resolved to discover and document the forces that led to Galenrs"s death. Gone Boyfollows Gibson as he visits the gun seller, as well as detectives, lawyers, psychiatrists, politicians, and college bureaucrats- a cast of characters as vivid as those in a Raymond Chandler mystery. Hailed by theNew York Timesand others for its evocative style and courage in confronting guns, violence, and manhood in America today, this wrenching memoir speaks in the voice of a man struggling to turn grief and rage into acceptance and understanding.

Author Biography

Gregory Gibson is a writer and an antiquarian book dealer. He and his wife live in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Cork City, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Introduction to North Atlantic Edition	p. ix
Prologue	p. xiii
	p. 1
Sick of It all	p. 3
The Man of Words	p. 7
The Time Machine	p. 19
The Trial	p. 39
The Road	p. 49
Dave	p. 55
Great American	p. 67
Clint, Lee & Me	p. 71
God's Will	p. 79
	p. 89
The Walkabout	p. 91
Pictures from an Institution	p. 123
In Which I Stand Corrected	p. 143
	p. 161
Superior Court	p. 163
What about Bob?	p. 171
The Collector	p. 179
My Own John Doe	p. 195
Wayne's Gun	p. 205
The Awful Truth	p. 213
The Un-Gun	p. 219
	p. 235
Department of Corrections	p. 237
The Battle of the Shrinks	p. 251
Jeremy	p. 271
A Narrow Madness	p. 289
Lo!	p. 305
La Vita Nuova	p. 325
Hibernating Stoats	p. 333
Afterword	p. 339
Acknowledgments	p. 343
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