The Medicine Burns: And Other Stories

by Adam Klein

Adam Klein?s debut fiction, The Medicine Burns, is a collection of stories linked by a central voice that is at once precise, touching and brutal. In ?Club Feet? a mother and son are inexorably bound by this inherited physical deformity; in the title story ?The Medicine Burns? a gay adolescent tyrannized by acne turns vengeful after failing in his struggle to be loved; in ?India? a young man with AIDS, unable to connect with everyday life, takes an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852424036
• ISBN13: 9781852424039
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Dark but engrossing

Nice style and well written. I read this a while ago but it stayed with me.

Read this. It is good.

Klein sure knows how to dance, but with words, baby. With words. I enjoyed this read. It has guts, swings along and then hits you like a half baked pie --- pow. Like a weeping monkey in the garden, or a squealing cat in the laundry. Sad, yes. Wounded, hounded and powerful fiction, oh double yes.If you like JT Leroy, this book will make you happy.