The Glister

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 village's abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they don't say a thing. Not even the town'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 plant's cavernous center.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 02/09/2010
ISBN: 9780307455338
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 10.00h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/21/2010 pg. 20