Innertown: isolated, forgotten, its chemical factory - which has poisoned the landscape and the inhabitants - is decommissioned; teenagers play and hunt in its expanses; boys disappear, the authorities, without any evidence, claim they have run away; the town policeman knows otherwise; then there is the mysterious Glister. Narrated through the eyes of teenager, Leonard - clever, sensitive and frightened - Burnside, with his poet's voice, creates in the strange landscape a dark and haunting beauty.
(Christine Miller - bwl 49 January 2009 ) |
