Better

by John O'Brien

Book Overview

"No contemporary novelist has plumbed so deeply into the human heart, and none has paid a steeper price for visiting those depths than John O'Brien. Better shows us what America lost when the author of Leaving Las Vegas took his own life. Unflinching, dark-souled, cry-until-you-laugh authentic . . . each word of this novel burns as true and doomed as a lit match dropped in a shot of whiskey. John O'Brien was a writer who lived and died with every...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933354828
• ISBN13: 9781933354828
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

like i'm there

i feel like i'm in the house. i'm not finished yet, but couldn't wait to write how much i'm enjoying this read. and can't but help wonder if some of the character names are word play in reference to us being slaves to our genetic code. read it, think about it, and post...