The Glister: A Novel by John BurnsideMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
[books: The Glister] starts out as a moderately interesting portrait of a teenager growing up in a left-behind, industrial wasteland. The book grows increasingly more improbably right up through the clumsy climax at the end. It is too bad John Burnside felt a need to force a silly, not-at-all-thrilling, thriller-style mystery story into what had the potential to be an interesting exploration of what happens when the company abandons the company-town to its fate.
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