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A computer analyst and software engineer for many years, burnside began publishing poetry in the 1980s. For the american gay activist and inventor 19162008, see john burnside inventor. Buy the dumb house new edition by john burnside isbn. If swimming in the flood is burnsides best book, the dumb house is his worst. This debut novel by scottish poet john burnside is subtitled a chamber novel, but chamber of horror. On the one hand, you are enticed by burnsides writing style, and on the other, you are horrified by the harrowing tale. In this exquisite, haunting book, john burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of cowdenbeath and corby to the new world of cambridge. Buy the dumb house by john burnside from waterstones today. As luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and. The dumb house tells the story of a man who uses his own children to recreate the mythical persian dumb house, in.
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