Facing the wind
Subtitle: a true story of tragedy and reconciliation
By: Julie Salamon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780375500220
Subjects: Social conditions; Murder; Family violence; Uxoricide
Description: The story of Robert Rowe, his disabled son, his adopted child, his murder of his wife and three children, and his second wife. The author "addresses the questions of how human beings cope with the burdens that chance inflicts upon them, and what guilt and innocence consist of."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-302).
Table of contents: title: The Beginning; title: The Second Son; title: Skills of Daily Living; title: The Mothers; title: The Happy Family; title: Neither Here nor There; title: One Sees, the Other Doesn't; title: Acceptance; title: The Ocularist; title: Unraveling; title: Afraid; title: Clarity; title: Reaction; title: The Defendant; title: The Postulant; title: Case Number 092182; title: A New Person; title: Father, Mother, Sister, Brother; title: Real Life; title: The Leper; title: The Final Appeal; title: The Meeting; title: The Other Side of the Door; title: Another Mother; title: The Cycle of Life.