The Montreal Massacre

By Sylvie Bérard

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921881142
• ISBN13: 9780921881148
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Montreal Massacre

This book is a collection of essays, articles and poems written after the massacre of fourteen women at Polytechnique in Montreal. The essays are insightful, angering and sobering. Since it deals with the immediate aftermath of the massacre only, there isn't much of the cause and effect, the conditions at the university and so on that some may look for. The editors purposely chose not to publish anything about the killer himself as they did not want to glorify or in any way excuse his actions--they felt that there had been too much focus on the killer and not enough on the victims already. These essays do not condemn all men, but there is a repeated theme that this violence against women was not an isolated incident by a madman. Violence against women is ongoing and still very pervasive, and that is what the authors condemn. A very worthwhile and sobering read.