The Burn Journals - Softcover

Runyon, Brent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141021861 ISBN 13: 9780141021867

Publisher: Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

Brent Runyon was fourteen years old when he set himself on fire. In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery, both physical and psychological, over the following year. He shares his story with such unflinching honesty that we understand - with a terrible clarity - what it means to want to kill yourself and how it feels to struggle back towards normality. Intense, exposed, insightful, The Burn Journals is a deeply personal story with universal reach. It is impossible to look away. Impossible to remain unmoved.

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"ÝThe Burn Journals¨ describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone." -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
"A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much." --Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
"Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes...unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." -"Booklist" (starred review)
"A taut, chilling account of the author's attempt to commit suicide...a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt."-"The Denver Post"
"An excruciating, brilliant book...WOW." --A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know

" [The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone." -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
" A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much." -- Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
" Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes...unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." -"Booklist" (starred review)
" A taut, chilling account of the author's attempt to commit suicide...a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt." -"The Denver Post"
" An excruciating, brilliant book...WOW." -- A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know

"[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone." -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

"A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much." --Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

"Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes...unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." -"Booklist" (starred review)

"A taut, chilling account of the author's attempt to commit suicide...a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt."-"The Denver Post"

"An excruciating, brilliant book...WOW." --A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know

[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone. -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much. Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
"Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes...unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." -"Booklist" (starred review)
"A taut, chilling account of the author's attempt to commit suicide...a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt."-"The Denver Post"
An excruciating, brilliant book...WOW. A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know"

[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone. -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much. Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
"Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes...unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." -Booklist (starred review)
"A taut, chilling account of the author's attempt to commit suicide...a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt."-The Denver Post
An excruciating, brilliant book...WOW. A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know"

"[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone." -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

"A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much." --Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

"Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes...unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." -Booklist (starred review)

"A taut, chilling account of the author's attempt to commit suicide...a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt."-The Denver Post

"An excruciating, brilliant book...WOW." --A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141021861
• ISBN 13: 9780141021867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384