The Tall Man

Reviews / Votes

Chloe Hooper's masterful book of reportage is a kind of moral thriller about power, wretchedness and violence * Philip Roth * It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this book -- Peter Carey Hooper fills in the background with a light touch.... She instinctively grasps the most telling detail... This is a brilliant vignette in which one appalling incident illuminates a saga of social breakdown -- Sara Wheeler * The Times * Queensland's police force - along with its tourist board - won't thank Hooper for The Tall Man, but the rest of us should. This meticulous, compelling portrayal of the dark side of Australian life deserves the widest possible audience * Sunday Times * An important, brilliant, perceptive book * Literary Review * Has already drawn comparisons with some of the best of that often derided genre, true crime, and it fully deserves the attention...this gracefully nuanced book is as much about the world in which a death takes place as the nature of death itself * Guardian * Povocative and visceral -- Barry Forshaw * The Times * This compelling portrait of the dark side of life down under deserves to be widely read -- Brian Schofield * Sunday Times * So sharply self-aware, laser-precise in its observation, so brutal, and still so tender. It's a masterpiece: true crime writing where Hooper takes no prisoners -- Skye Arundhati Thomas * White Review, *Books of the Year* *