Description: "Brilliant. . . . Beautiful and frightening." --The New York Times Book Review "Haunting. . . . [A] darkly beautiful meditation on death, guilt and redemption." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review "A deeply philosophical tale that goes right to the heart of existence and what one must to do, despite circumstances, to retain humanity."-- St. Petersburg Times "Burnside builds mood and atmosphere with fearsome skill." -- Chicago-Sun Times "By turns beguiling, sinister, playful and never less than mesmerizing. . . . [ The Glister ] will haunt you." --Irvine Welsh, Guardian "A hauntingly mysterious . . . story about disappearances and environmental decay." -- Toronto Star "Like a later day Jekyll and Hyde, Burnside can turn from luminous verse to prose that keeps you up at night. The Glister is such a novel." -- The Financial Times

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