Books by John Burnside
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review 1: John Burnside creates an otherworldly atmosphere in this story that takes place in the lonely reaches of Norway beyond the Arctic Circle. Burnside takes the reader to a place that is full of unnatural possibilities where the real and the imaginary become indistinguishable. A re...
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review 1: This is a strange book. I was expecting a horror/mystery story but it veered into something else entirely. And midway on, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to continue since it did not seem like it was progressing with regards to the murders. However, John Burnside's beautiful prose...
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review 1: Truly something 'other', this book is remarkable in not being a description of events, but more than most first-person narratives, an account of one person's experience of those events. The central events are wrapped in mystery, never fully explained, or even seen very much on th...
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review 1: It's a talented author who can make a subject matter so dark as Glister's seem beautiful and poetic. Set largely outdoors, the story works its way through a decaying landscape that has been destroyed by the chemical plant that dominates it. And where it strays from the abandoned ...
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review 1: John Burnside's Glister reminds us that truly great books pose problems facile novels never do; their pages don't turn quickly; the reader doesn't magically identify with the heroes or protagonists of great books; and the eternal questions don't get answered, so much as they shed...