Chase Your Shadow (Large Print)

Author:	Carlin, John
Binding:	Paperback Large Print
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ISBN:	9780062370518
Publisher:	Harper Collins
Language:	English
Page Count:	552
Publication Date:	12/30/2014
Size:	9.02" l x 5.94" w x 1.26"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
True Crime	Murder - General
Biography & Autobiography	Sports

In 2012, Oscar Pistorius became the first amputee runner in history to compete in the Olympics, and was hailed as a hero not only in his native South Africa but around the world. But everything changed for Pistorius in the early morning hours of February 14, 2013--Valentine's Day--when he shot and killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. He was arrested and convicted for culpable homicide in a seven-month murder trial broadcast from Johannesburg to an international audience.

Acclaimed journalist John Carlin details the wrenching emotional breakdowns and merciless interrogation of the accused and the courtroom confrontation between a white, privileged, twenty-seven-year-old male athlete on trial for murder, and the black female judge who alone would decide his fate--held in a democratic country trying to exorcise its history of racial hatred and endemic violence against women--exposes the complex social and political realities of post-Apartheid South Africa.