Gun Fires Blasts Of Compassion

Last century was the worst for wars ever. Deborah Cameron finds an artist who cares. Hit by a single shotgun blast, a 175-page hardcover book gets kicked in the air before it falls. With a hole punched in the back cover and its spine weakened, the book sheds tiny slugs of lead from between desiccated pages for months. But die? No. For Geoff Hocking, author of what must be the most unusual book to be published in Australia this year, the shooting of 140 copies of One Million Human Beings made a ...