The Locust Room - Softcover

Burnside, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224052926 ISBN 13: 9780224052924

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

The finest and most disturbing novel yet from the author of "The Dumb House" and The Mercy Boys. Twenty-five years ago a rapist stalked the streets of Cambridge attacking young women and subjecting them to violent assaults. These events form the background to this extraordinary novel in which circumstances force a young male photographer to examine his relations with women, and with other men. Over one dramatic summer, he becomes involved in a series of sexual intrigues as he journeys towards self-definition. What emerges from an atmosphere of tension and terror is a moving examination of male tenderness, individual autonomy and personal grace.

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Review:

"The Locust Room is a dark, tense, exquisitely cruel, painfully tender novel. It intrigues" (The Times)

"A subtle, finely observed mediation on male relationships" (Daily Mail)

"The Locust Room is thoughtful, provocative in the best sense, and ultimately moving. It is Burnside at this best. And that is very good indeed" (Glasgow Herald)

From the Publisher:

Burnside’s finest – and most disturbing – novel since The Dumb House.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0224052926
• ISBN 13: 9780224052924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320