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The glister: a novel

✍ Scribed by John Burnside

Publisher: Random House, Inc.;Doubleday
Year: 2010;2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 181 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY:
Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the villagers"s abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they donrs"t say a thing. Not even the townrs"s only cop, whose leads have long since died. To one boy, however, the chemical plant is beautiful, and it is there he will enact a plan to change the fate of the children of Innertown. To do so he will have to confront the blinding reality that burns in the chemical plantrs"s cavernous center.

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