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The Glister
Contributor(s): Burnside, John (Author)
ISBN: 0307455335     ISBN-13: 9780307455338
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
OUR PRICE:   $16.15  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2010
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Since George Lister's chemical plant closed down, Innertown has been a shadow of its former self. In the woods that once teemed with life, strange sickly plants grow. Homes that were once happy are threatened by a mysterious illness.
Here, a young boy named Leonard and his friends exist in a state of confusion and despair, as every year or so a boy from their school vanishes after venturing into the poisoned woods. Without conclusive evidence of foul play, the authorities consider the boys to be runaways.
The town policeman suspects otherwise but, paralyzed with fear, he does nothing. And so it is up to the children who remain to take action. Their plan to stop the forces of evil that are destroying their town is at the shocking and terrifying heart of "The Glister."
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Thrillers - Psychological
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 10" (0.65 lbs) 272 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche.

Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive sense of malaise hangs everywhere. So when teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the village's abandoned chemical plant, no one notices, or if they do, they don't say a thing. Not even the town's only cop, whose leads have long since died. To one boy, however, the chemical plant is beautiful, and it is there he will enact a plan to change the fate of the children of Innertown. To do so he will have to confront the blinding reality that burns in the chemical plant's cavernous center.