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| Gone Boy: A Walkabout: A Father's Search for the Truth in His Son's Murder | 
 enlarge | Author: Gregory Gibson
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 1064465
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0385720041
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092
EAN: 9780385720045
ASIN: 0385720041
Publication Date: October 3, 2000
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 We are all the authors of this story. December 6, 1999
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
As a father and social worker for thirty years, I have always been profoundly disturbed by the lack of understanding and avoidance of human aggression among those individuals and institutions, who typically confront it. While we point to laws, intellectually search, ad nauseum, for all the cultural, institutional and early childhood causes for tragedies, such as this one, we forget to appreciate that despite all our affluence, we have constructed a social order, not only unable to resolve the commonest forms of family and social conflict, but we are devoid of any rights of passage that might aid our youth in developing a true understanding of social consequences and responsibility. As the author and others in the book point out, why a simple phone call to 911 did not occur, is incredulous! This is a great book and agonizing story! You won't want to put it down. In fact, if you are a parent, you'll simply want to scream or cry!
Courage April 9, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Any good parents worst NIGHTMARE, the early loss of a child. Gregory Gibson has the courage to take a hard, well written, look a himself and our society. If you have the courage it takes to do some honest thinking, READ THIS BOOK!
Gone Boy -- a riveting read August 16, 2001
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Gone Boy, is Gregory Gibson's exploration of the facts and emotions surrounding the murder of his young son. As many other reviewers have remarked, it is beautifully written, thoughtful, and fascinating.I expected the book to be a litany of complaints, wrongs, conspiracies and so-forth, and it was remarkably devoid of such histrionics. It was subtle and intelligent. Gibson's lack of histrionics makes the impact of his book all the stronger. His documentation of the incompetence of the Simon's Rock administration is bone-chilling. One of the most interesting, and again, chilling, parts of the book was a description of his meeting with Leon Botstein, President of Bard College (to which Simon's Rock belongs). Yet, despite numerous reasons Gibson has to be disgusted with the performance of the Simon's Rock administration, he has managed to contain his anger enough to write a well-reasoned, moving book -- one that is at the same time a memorial to his son, and food for thought about violence in our society, our schools, and the domino-effect that each small decision can have in creating a tragedy.
Gibson's voice is clear, direct and his own; should be read. September 9, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The event which occasioned Gone Boy was the murder of young, bright Galen Gibson; but this is no ordinary book about crime, about grief, or about a father's and a family's struggle to come to grips with what must be the most unimaginable of losses. Gregory Gibson opens himself to us as few can or would, and Gone Boy transcends all the theoretical books about loss and unfairness and grief and all the self-help books as well. There is no theory here, no theology of loss, but by showing us the range of his thoughts and emotions we come to understand not only his struggle but ourselves and the nature of grief as well. Gibson's voice is clear, direct, and his own; Gone Boy would be the best book of its kind if there were other books of its kind, but it stands by itself and should be read.
Five stars is not enough October 13, 1999
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a truly amazing book. I will not go on and tell you how wonderful it is. Just read it. Gregory Gibson is the voice of sanity in this country's insane need for guns.
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