 Concrete Sky
By Marshall Moore
Debut thriller by a newcomer to Seattle, about a young gay man instituionalized by his homophobic brother - and then suspected of killing two of his fellow patients. - Seattle Times
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Product Details
- Paperback; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 8.40 x 6.08
- Publisher: Harrington Park Pr; (July 2003)
- ISBN: 1560234369
- Amazon.com Sales Rank: 44,147
Reviews
I thoroughly enjoyed the pitch-black humor of this book, which flips a verbal bird at everything from mental healthcare professionals to white trash to the arrogant wealthy. At times, the snarky attitude verges on overwhelming, but read in several moderately sized portions rather than wolfed down in one sitting, The Concrete Sky is as pitilessly/pleasurably sharp-tongued as Robert Schimmel's stand-up routines or Gore Vidal on one of his more misanthropic days. The noir-tinted plot keeps fingers turning pages fast, but it's Moore's singularly pissy narrative voice that leaves the deeper papercuts...on your brain. - Jim Gladstone
The author is the child Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker never had together. I haven't read anything this witty in years. THE CONCRETE SKY made me laugh, it made me mad, it made me think, it got under my skin. I was rooting for Chad and Jonathan and I wanted to slap them both too. I couldn't put this one down. It made me late for work because I stayed up late reading. This is a debut novel? What's he going to write next? - A reader from Los Angeles, CA
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