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...something well beyond the run of the chill. He meticulously establishes the plausibility of his unlikely tale. The isolation of the house and its inhabitants is crucial: things could not go wrong the way they do in the presence of prying neighbors. Also necessary is a large quantity of cement, an empty trunk in the basement and, later, a sledgehammer. Most important is the question of motivation. Faced with the fact of their mother's corpse and the fear of being dispersed as orphans by the authorities, the children act not out of evil but according to the relentless...
...CEMENT GARDEN by Ian McEwan
...inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior is its mundane lack of mystery...
...price on his head because he was resisting Mafia drug pushing (the FBI expresses polite skepticism about this). Then Newton disappeared, in part to avoid the charges against him. He surfaced a year later in Cuba, and there he lived for the next two years, working in a cement factory...
That left 1:56 remaining, enough time for Dartmouth to drive 94 yards in 1:12 for the game's final score, and cement Harvard Coach Joe Restic's belief in the futility of the prevent defense...