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This mortal boy / Fiona Kidman.

By: Publication details: Auckland : Vintage, 2018.Description: 295 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780143771807 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9641 K46 2018
Awards:
  • Winner 2019 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel (NZ).
Summary: "Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders"--Publisher information.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded Crime Fiction
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"Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders"--Publisher information.

Winner 2019 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel (NZ).

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