Watching the Body Burn

by Thomas Glynn

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394571762
• ISBN13: 9780394571768
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dark and compelling, like motor oil and gum all over you

Thomas Glynn is a master of the perversely mundane. "Watching..." tells the haunting story an extraordinarily grotesque father's life by a son narrating the decline and decay and simultaneous liberation it in it's ultimate baseness and simplicity. Because you know, sometimes nothing illumintaes perversion more than normality. There is nothing like candor to make us wish we never knew intimacy and in "Watching The Body Burn" there are many such regrets. When I run the world, this book will be required reading for all writers as he is simply one of the most compelling prose stylest outside of Kate Braverman I have ever read. I wish he was my mom and told me stories at night but I would probably grow up so totally twisted I would appear normal again.