Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters

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Insomniac Press, 1997 - Fiction - 185 pages
With two of North America's most notorious serial killer / sex slayers as its focus, Lynn Crosbie's novel, Paul's Case, dissects and pathologizes the horrific world of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. In the true-crime tradition of Norman Mailer and a host of others, this book is a remarkable work of theoretical fiction that sensitively, imaginatively, and systematically analyses the abduction and murder of Bernardo and Homolka's innocent victims while exploring, in startlingly graphic detail, the cultural effects of the shocking revelations and controversy surrounding the capture, trial, testimony, videotape evidence, and incarceration of the almost unthinkable monstrous pair. This is compelling, moving, impossible work: a book which will shock, terrify, and anger you: a book which will break your heart and change you. You will never forget Paul's Case.
 

Contents

1 Fear
13
2 Blond Van in a Beige Camaro
27
3 At the Courthouse Last July
35
4 The Drugs that Killed Tammy
39
5 By Any Other Name
42
6 Jason Lives
44
7 The Night of the Iguana
50
8 Pornography
54
29 The Little Girls Understand
109
30 The Revenger
111
31 Algebra
114
32 Found Poem
116
33 Tripbook
117
34 Whoso List to Hunt
119
35 The Interior
122
36 Therapy
123

9 The Scarborough Rapist
56
10 Tales from the Crypt
61
11 Mahaffy
62
12 The Green Knight
67
13 Sex Trial
72
14 The Journalist the Murderer
77
15 Pretty Thoughts
79
16 Three Killers
80
17 A Poetics
82
18 Miracle of the Rose
85
19 Two Boy Scouts
87
20 Karlas SuicideDesire
89
21 Kristen
93
22 Lovebirds
95
23 Abduction
97
24 The Grand Illusion
99
25 John Rosen
103
26 Pauls Current Affair
104
27 Surveillance
106
28 The WormPicker
108
37 SuckerPunch
127
38 The Avenger
129
39 A Hell of a Woman
132
40 Asslicker
134
41 The Battered Wife
135
42 My Little Sister
136
43 Scream
140
44 Argument
141
45 En Attendant Line
143
46 Television
148
47 Hockey
154
48 Snuff
156
49 Necromancy
161
50 List Poem
162
51 Revelation
163
52 The Rest is Silence
164
LegendAppendix
167
Bibliography
171
Acknowledgements
185
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

Lynn Crosbie was born in Montreal, Canada in 1963. She received a PhD in English literature from the University of Toronto. She is a cultural critic, and the author of four books of poetry: Miss Pamela's Mercy, VillainElle, Pearl and Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems. Pearl was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is also the author of two novels: Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters and Dorothy L'Amour and collaborated with David Trinidad and Jeffery Conway on Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, which is based on the film All About Eve. She is the editor of The Girl Wants To: Representations of Sex and the Body and Click. She teaches at the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto.

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