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The Burn Journals: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400096428)
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Brent Runyon
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xFans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.
"[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 DemonIn 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he'd done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.
Author: Brent Runyon
ISBN-10: 1400096421
ISBN-13: 9781400096428
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.72d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 80773 / Burn Journals
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 79
Kliatt 11/01/2006 pg. 37
By Brent Runyon
xBRENT RUNYON is a writer and regular contributor to public radio programs, including This American Life, where portions of his award-winning memoir, The Burn Journals, first aired. Booklist praised The Burn Journals as "the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge." In his novels Maybe and Surface Tension, he retains that raw honesty. Mr. Runyon lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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