· Blackburn is a serial killer. But, like the rest of us, he confronts the same hypocrisies and frustrations of the world and, unable to help himself, or at the mercy of circumstance, he crosses a dangerous threshold#;and he kills. In this novel, we meet many of his twenty-one victims#58; law Brand: Picador. The rollicking, horrifying, ultimately elegiac career of serial killer Jimmy Blackburn, whose adventures take him from his father's Kansas chicken farm to a coast-to-coast odyssey of killing people who don't deserve to live. Denton (Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, ) traces Blackburn's hands-on approach to social engineering to the usual sources: his parents' shrilly failed marriage, his . In Blackburn, Bradley Denton makes all of that happen. Blackburn follows the life of Jimmy Blackburn, told through a series of nineteen stories spanning his life. The book has an intriguing structure, alternating stories called things like "Victim Number Two" (which is the tantalizing first one) with numbered and named chapters (the second chapter is actually called "One: Blackburn and the Blind 4/5(4).
Presearch is a decentralized search engine, powered by the community. Blackburn: A Novel . by Bradley Denton. (32) $ Jimmy Blackburn grows up in the Midwest believing the things that adults tell him. He questions his teachers and they lie to him. He questions his parents and his father beats him. He questions the world and it hurts him. And so Jimmy Blackburn becomes a killer. Grid View Tile View. Down These Strange Streets. Bradley Denton $ - $ - $
Blackburn is a serial killer. But, like the rest of us, he confronts the same hypocrisies and frustrations of the world and, unable to help himself, or at the mercy of circumstance, he crosses a dangerous threshold--and he kills. In this novel, we meet many of his twenty-one victims: law enforcers, writers, adulterers, auto mechanics, and other liars. Blackburn is a serial killer. But, like the rest of us, he confronts the same hypocrisies and frustrations of the world and, unable to help himself, or at the mercy of circumstance, he crosses a dangerous threshold#;and he kills. In this novel, we meet many of his twenty-one victims#58; law. Some of Blackburn's early life is brought out in flashbacks to his childhood. Denton's not saying the character's upbringing made him a killer. He's just showing the casual cruelty and inhumanity that can be found anywhere, including a small town in Kansas. Sometimes our end is our beginning, maybe.
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