{"product_id":"the-glister-paperback","title":"The Glister - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Burnside\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMysterious 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Burnside is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Footprints\u003c\/i\u003e, the memoir \u003ci\u003eA Lie About My Father\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as five additional works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry published in the United Kingdom. \u003ci\u003eThe Asylum Dance\u003c\/i\u003e won the Whitbread Poetry Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Light Trap\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and \u003ci\u003eA Lie About My Father\u003c\/i\u003e won the two biggest Scottish literary prizes: the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 10 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41840285352071,"sku":"9780307455338","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2a32eae48ef39bcc4cf08d008d66cd65.webp?v=1734082962","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-glister-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}