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>Suddenly he finds himself accused of murder.
At first he reacts calmly. It seems to him an absurd, almost an amusing,
mistake. To his Wife, his friends, his very lack of passion is proof of
his innocence. But to the police, Maddox is the guilty man. At their
hands he is relentlessly stripped of his invulnerability.
Imprisoned, alone, ignoring the insistent demands of his own defense, he
sets out to find his way back to life. In the memories of his childhood
and in the act of death and violence of which he stands accused, Maddox
submits himself to a far more crucial, far more agonizing trial than the
one in which he appears every day as the defendant. For his real trial
is that of a man attempting, for the first time, perhaps too late, to
accept the responsibilities of living.> >Suddenly he finds
himself accused of murder.
At first he reacts calmly. It seems to him an absurd, almost an amusing,
mistake. To his Wife, his friends, his very lack of passion is proof of
his innocence. But to the police, Maddox is the guilty man. At their
hands he is relentlessly stripped of his invulnerability.
Imprisoned, alone, ignoring the insistent demands of his own defense, he
sets out to find his way back to life. In the memories of his childhood
and in the act of death and violence of which he stands accused, Maddox
submits himself to a far more crucial, far more agonizing trial than the
one in which he appears every day as the defendant. For his real trial
is that of a man attempting, for the first time, perhaps too late, to
accept the responsibilities of living.>
