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The Missing Book

Scottish journalist Andrew O'Hagan's fascination with "missing persons" grew out of his childhood exposure to the fear engendered by unexplained disappearance. He begins his inquiry into this scarily prevalent phenomenon by describing his growing up in working-class Glasgow in the 1970s, his parents' worry over inner city violence, and the disappearance of a local boy that left the author with a deep unease. O'Hagan's investigation into the causes of such disappearances--abduction, willful walking away from life, teenage angst, parental abandonment--includes a detailed account of a famous British serial murder case in Gloucester. Through wrenching interviews with those hurt most, O'Hagan evokes a compassionate and disturbing empathy with the absent victims of modern alienation.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Ever since he was enthralled and appalled by the murders of Bible John, a psychopath who haunted Glasgow dance halls and killed three women, disappearing without a trace, Andrew O'Hagan has wanted an answer to this question: how can people disappear off the face of the earth? How could Frederick West's victims go unnoticed? Every year in Britain some 2000 people go missing. In this book, O'Hagan looks at real cases known to him personally and concludes with an account of the missing persons killed by the Wests of Gloucester.

  • 0330341367
  • 9780330341363
  • Andrew O'Hagan
  • 11 September 1995
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 244
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