The Tall Man

The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country

'The country's finest work of literature so far this century.  A haunting moral maze, described with such intimate observation and exquisite restraint that I kept pausing to take a breath and silently cheer the author.  in her tale of the fatal collision between two 36-year-old males, black Cameron Doomadgee and white Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Hooper . . . has produced an Australian classic.'
ROBERT DREWE, *THE AGE*

'Hooper followed the case and its main characters for two and a half years, and she does their complexity a remarkable justice . . . Extraordinary.'
ALISON McCULLOCH, *NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*

'A gripping, heart-stopping piece of true-crime reportage . . . Deserves the widest possible audience.'
BRIAN SCHOFIELD, *SUNDAY TIMES *(UK)

'The book is everything it should be: a sad, beautiful, frightening account of one man's death, interwoven with the brutal history of Palm Island and a golden thread of Aboriginal mythology . . . It is *The Tall Man's *triumph that Hooper finds the common humanity in the accused and the accuser, the police officer and the street drinker, theliving and the dead.'
MARK DAPIN, *SYDNEY MORNING HERALD*

'The north has chosen to reveal itself to Chloe Hooper.'
PAUL TOOHEY, *WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN*

Selected for 'Best books of the year' lists by Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín, Matt Condon, Peter Carey, Salon.com, *The Globe & Mail* and Dwight Garner in *The New York Times*.

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