WHY DID WILLIAM MERRIAM MURDER his wife and children? What sets him on a trail of murder and perverse destruction that transgresses what is thinkable in human behaviour? This is a dark, frightening, controversial book about a man who skins his victims, and is merciless toward himself.
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"Harvey is the bone man flaying things bare. Beware, beware, no one has woven a circle around him thrice." -- Barry Callaghan, author of Barrelhouse Kings
"Kenneth J. Harvey is a literary high priest and a moveable feast— one of Canada's most volatile and valuable resources." -- Lynn Crosbie, author of Dorothy L'Amour
"Kenneth J. Harvey is both funny and ferocious... He is one of Canada's best, and certainly the country's bravest, writer." -- Paul Quarrington
"Kenneth J. Harvey is a literary high priest and a moveable feast— one of Canada's most volatile and valuable resources." -- Lynn Crosbie, author of Dorothy L'Amour
"Kenneth J. Harvey is both funny and ferocious... He is one of Canada's best, and certainly the country's bravest, writer." -- Paul Quarrington
About the Author
Kenneth J. Harvey has been published in several countries and is the critically acclaimed author of four short story collections - Directions for an Open Body (which earned a Commonwealth Writers Prize nomination), The Hole That Must Be Filled, The Great Misogynist (selected as a Globe and Mail Editor's Choice book), and The Flesh So Close - three novels - Brud (shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award), Nine-Tenths Unseen, and Skinhound: There Are No Words - two thrillers - Stalkers and The Woman in the Closet - and a collection of poetry, Kill the Poets. Harvey lives in a small coastal community near St. John's, Newfoundland.
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International bestselling author Kenneth J. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy's Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the Giller Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His editorials have appeared on CBC Radio, in The Times (London) and in most major Canadian newspapers, including The Globe & Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Telegraph Journal, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star and Halifax Daily News.
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The Most Disturbing Book I Have Ever Read,
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This review is from: Skin hound (there are no words): A transcomposite novel (Paperback)
This book was so distrubing it scared me crazy. But it made me cry too. The writing is just perfect. It makes you feel so strongly for Patient X, then hate him the next moment.
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