Famine

By Todd Komarnicki

Book Overview

Two lives are about to cross. Where one ends, the other begins. A police detective discovers the corpse of a young man, dead by starvation, in one of Manhattan's most exclusive neighborhoods. He died... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559703652
• ISBN13: 9781559703659
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.1" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Quietly shattering.

Indeed, the first 30 odd pages are a bit self-conciously angsty, but after that--fuggheddaboudit. Komarnicki knows and is able to boil down the most sad dark places--sans po-mo "hip" /"cool" hoohaw--into a few terse sentences that leave you, quite literally, stunned. And looking at your own life, and wondering. What higher praise is there for a book than that?

Fantastic magical realism

This book is great. It is not a linear detective story as many who are into the "mystery" genre might hope for, but a wonderful psychological story along the lines of Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or, more recently, Arundhati Roy. Part of the beauty of the book is that it is as maddening and enchanting as living itself can be. Kudos to the author.

This is why Todd Komarnicki is the king of homelessness.

Mr. Komarnicki is God's gift to the literary world! Read his books with a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a box of girl scout cookies and experience nirvana.

Plunges into and out of the darkest depths of human nature.

A serial killer is haunting (contemporary) Manhattan, starving his victims and leaving their emaciated bodies to be found by a puzzled NYPD. The detective assigned to the case launches an investigation that uncovers an epidemic far more serious than one caused at the hands of a single killer. We also follow the story of a gravely depressed young man, Daniel, who falls victim to this physical starvation. With his, beautiful, also disturbed, companion, Emma, Daniel provides the perfect case study for the increasingly perplexed detective. The connection between physical and emotional pain is made clearly evident by this talented writer. A compelingly disturbing read