John Burnside is the author of the novel The Devil's Footprints and the memoir A Lie about My Father, as well as five works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry published in the United Kingdom.
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Fifteen-year-old Leonard describes his hometown as a contemporary hell: part industrial ruin, part Dante’s Inferno. The poisoned woods and the derelict buildings are haunted by wild children, a strange, sickly fauna, and the mysterious Moth Man, an ... SEE MORE