John Burnside
Birth date: January 01, 1955
John Burnside's Books
No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world. As a child, the unnamed narrator listened to his mother telling a persian myth about the dumb house. The dumb house is a palace, in which Akbar the Great put newborn children, att...
Doesn't feel anorexic with its prose like a lot of modern short story collections - a lot of thought seems to have gone into writing these stories and they feel real/hefty and with a purpose.Can be tiring reading the whole collection in a single seating (I took breaks several times over 3 days) but ...
Better the devil you know than the devil you don'tOpening: Long ago, in Coldhaven, a small fishing town on the east coast of Scotland, the people woke in the darkness of a mid-December morning to find, not only their homes were buried in one of those deeper, dreamlike snowfalls that only happen once...
'The Glister' promises a great deal, but in the end it has little more to offer than that cheap trick of the modern "literary" novel: writing the last chapter in obfuscating prose to mask the fact that as an author you never had an end-game in mind. Burnside's Innertown's post-industrial decay and d...
Do dysfunctional families make the best memoirs? Are happy, normal families bad fodder instead?
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