Review
"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 both funny and ferocious... He is one of Canada's best, and certainly the country's bravest, writer." -- Paul Quarrington
"Kenneth J. Harvey... is one of Canada's most volatile and valuable resources. -- Lynn Crosbie, author of Dorothy L'Amour
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... the rhyme, the reason, a master of treason— 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 both funny and ferocious... He is one of Canada's best, and certainly the country's bravest, writer." -- Paul Quarrington
"Kenneth J. Harvey... is one of Canada's most volatile and valuable resources. -- Lynn Crosbie, author of Dorothy L'Amour
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... the rhyme, the reason, a master of treason— 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
Book Description
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.
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.
