Description: 'eoeFirst comes the awareness that you'e(tm)re home alone. Next the butterflies kick in. Soon you'e(tm)re skipping ahead to the bottom of the page before you get the nerve to back up and face what happened, the reading equivalent of peeking through your fingers. But the thrills in [ The Four Stages of Cruelty ], Keith Hollihan'e(tm)s first, aren'e(tm)t cheap.'e 'e" THE NEW YORK TIMES 'eoeMr. Hollihan'e(tm)s superb accomplishment is to get us to care for the prisoners . . . [ The Four Stages of Cruelty ]'e(tm)s title foretells its inevitable drift, yet, like Kali, we'e(tm)re made vulnerable by compassion. Then, having softened us up, Mr. Hollihan sets off an explosive ending that'e(tm)s indelible and genuinely shocking.'e 'e" THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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