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'Life springs from every page of this enthralling book. Australians will weep over it. It is first class reportage, meticulously researched, studded with superbly observed human detail - and all the more moving for its intense restraint.'
Helen Garner
Chloe Hooper's reports from the inquest won her a Walkley Award and were published around the world. The Tall Man is the story of the death of Cameron Doomadgee, who one morning swore at a policeman and forty-five minutes later lay dead in a watch house cell. The Tall Man tells the full story of the subsequent trial and its repercussions through northen Australia. In the tradition of In Cold
Blood, she follows Hurley's trail to some of the hard towns of the Gulf, uncovering the true story behind the trial. The Tall Man offers a brilliant insight into the clash of two worlds - and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.
Chloe Hooper's first novel A Child's Book of True Crime was published in many languages. It was a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction (UK). She lives in Melbourne and is working on a new novel.