Sins of the son
By: Carlton Stowers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Stowers, Anson, 1963-  -- Family.; Stowers, Carlton -- Family.; Murderers -- Texas -- Biography.; Uxoricide -- Texas.; Wife abuse -- Texas.; Fathers -- Texas -- Psychology.; Fathers and sons -- Texas.
Description: In one of the more bizarre and ironic twists to ever occur in the world of books, Carlton Stowers - who for several years has made his living as an award-winning writer of true crime, investigating the effects of senseless violence on families and victims - was himself thrust into a true-crime nightmare. Anson, Carlton's eldest son, was arrested for the murder of his twenty-five-year-old wife.

Here is the wrenching story of a father and a son: Carlton, a single father who raised his boys while making a reputation for himself as a Dallas journalist, doing his best to protect his sons from the emotional pain of divorce, and trying to ingrain in them his own powerful sense of right and wrong; and Anson, a boy who seemed to always take the wrong path. From his teenage years on, Anson's life was a string of anger, violence, and criminal activity: drugs, forgery, auto theft, and, finally, murder.

What goes wrong in a family to create such terror? And how does a father deal with the pain, anger, and guilt that comes with a child going bad? In Sins of the Son, we are given the painful and cathartic answer. Here is a crime writer and a father, grappling with the darkest truth that a parent could possibly have to face.