The Stephen Hawking Death Row Fan Club
Six Stories and a Novella
by R.C. Goodwin
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Pub Date Mar 17 2015 | Archive Date Apr 24 2015
Description
AS DEATH ROW INMATES AWAIT EXECUTION, THEY DELVE INTO A STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE.
A STALKER LETS US GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD OF HIS COMPULSIONS.
A WOMAN, CONFRONTING HER CONVICTED RAPIST, BECOMES OBSESSED WITH FINDING A WAY TO KILL HIM.
A NEO-NAZI BEGINS TO SEE BEYOND THE HATE AND VIOLENCE ON WHICH HE HAS BASED HIS LIFE.
How do people wind up in prison? Once there, can they change? Do they feel remorse, or merely regret that they’ve been incarcerated? What kind of a toll does a prison take on those who work there? What’s the aftermath of a violent assault on their victims, and their victims’ families, and their own?
These are a few of the questions confronted by the characters in R.C. Goodwin’s collection of stories, The Stephen Hawking Death Row Fan Club. The questions don’t make for easy answers, and the characters don’t fall into clear-cut categories.
Taken together, the stories illuminate some of society’s darkest corners. Goodwin’s experience practicing psychiatry in correctional settings for over twenty years adds depth and authenticity to them. His stories offer unexpected turns and endings, as well as surprising doses of gallows humor.
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781634130158 |
| PRICE | $15.99 (USD) |
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I was instantly absorbed in these stories. Characters linked so interestingly and with each story it felt as if I was merely sitting back and hearing the stories told to me. The style of writing not only pulled me in but weaved interesting and intricate stories that are realistic and compelling.
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This was an excellent collection of seven short stories connected in that they are about Orrington prison inmates, staff, victims and victims' families. Orrington is a maximum security prison and holds the state's death row inmates.
Goodwin spent most of his career as a psychiatrist working in prisons, so it's not surprising that his stories sound incredibly authentic. They are also uniformly good and the title story about a mental health worker who connects with death row inmates through Hawking's [book: A Brief History of Time] is great - I can definitely see it making some anthologies of the year's best short fiction. Goodwin is an excellent writer, but note that these are not tales for the delicate flowers out there - this is prison, both the horrible things people do to get there, what happens when they are inside and the damage done to their victims and their families, as well as the toll on mental health staff working with these inmates.
Highly recommended.
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