Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son - The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper

Informationen zum Autor Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove , The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday . He was also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son , Pocket Money , Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence , was a collection of his essays on art. Klappentext It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley! researching his life. In Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper , Gordon Burn explores the life of Peter Sutcliffe to create a modern classic, offering one of the most penetrating and provocative insights into the mind of a murderer ever written. Zusammenfassung It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley! researching his life.

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Burn, Burn Gordon
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.2004
• EAN: 9780571222834
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22283-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, English, TRUE CRIME / General, Murder; Fred West; Reportage; Yorkshire Ripper