The Medicine Burns: And Other Stories (High Risk Books)

By Adam Klein

Adam Klein?s debut fiction, The Medicine Burns, is a collection of stories linked by a central voice that is at once precise, touching and brutal. In ?Club Feet? a mother and son are inexorably bound by this inherited physical deformity; in the title story ?The Medicine Burns? a gay adolescent tyrannized by acne turns vengeful after failing in his struggle to be loved; in ?India? a young man with AIDS, unable to connect with everyday life, takes an exotic adventure. These stories brim with boys and men who do not fit in, shedding new light on the outsider in our society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852424036
• ISBN13: 9781852424039
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Dark but engrossing

Nice style and well written. I read this a while ago but it stayed with me.

Read this. It is good.

Klein sure knows how to dance, but with words, baby. With words. I enjoyed this read. It has guts, swings along and then hits you like a half baked pie --- pow. Like a weeping monkey in the garden, or a squealing cat in the laundry. Sad, yes. Wounded, hounded and powerful fiction, oh double yes.If you like JT Leroy, this book will make you happy.