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Item Details
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BURNING ELVIS
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| By: |
John Burnside |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448114276 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448114276 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 2011 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Translated from: |
English |
| Description: |
Presents a collection that features the following stories: As he sets out on his first adventure in life, a young man enters the dark realm of adult violence; a married suburbanite longs for the wide, mysterious world that seems to hover just beyond the next turn in the road; a pair of disturbed twins commit a pointless crime; and, more. |
| Synopsis: |
As he sets out on his first adventure in life, a young man enters the dark realm of adult violence; a married suburbanite longs for the wide, mysterious world that seems to hover just beyond the next turn in the road; a pair of disturbed twins commit a pointless crime; and the boy of the title story, at once appalled and beguiled by the glamour of others, has all his hopes and expectations exposed by a senseless murder.Burning Elvis is a book about innocence and fear, about boys and men who have no idea who they are, or what they are supposed to do, but are haunted by a vague apprehension of possible grace. In their differing ways they are lost, scared and, at the same time, caught up in a quest, a search for the real Graceland -- 'an idea of home, something in black and white, the smell of cheap lilac soap and a radio playing in the kitchen...and a mouthful of trick blood on the bathroom floor, to keep the night away.'Already celebrated as a prodigiously gifted novelist and poet, John Burnside now extends his range to the shorter form, in a collection of stories written with the same beautiful control, the same power to ravish and disturb. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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