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The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It's a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on weekends is the inevitable fight at the local bar. But recently, something out of the ordinary - perhaps even supernatural - has been stirring in Brewster. While packs of coyotes gather on back roads and the news spreads that a baby has been stolen from Memorial Hospital (and replaced in its bassinet by a snake), a series of inexplicably violent acts begins to confound Detective Woody Potter and the local police - and inspire terror in the hearts and minds of the locals. From award-winning author Stephen Dobyns comes a sardonic yet chillingly suspenseful novel: the literary equivalent of a Richard Russo small-town tableau crossed with a Stephen King thriller. The Burn Palace is a darkly funny, twisted portrait of chaos and paranoia, with an impressive host of richly rendered, larger than-life characters and a thrilling plot that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.
- Sales Rank: #4348438 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Thorndike Press
- Published on: 2013-07-24
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, 1.63 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 617 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
From Booklist
Award-winning poet and veteran novelist Dobyns, who also pens the Charlie Bradshaw mystery series, sets his latest thriller in Brewster, Rhode Island, a small town beset by a series of strange occurrences that may be supernatural in nature. Detective Woody Potter has been wracked by emotional turmoil ever since his girlfriend left him. But he knows he’s in for an even rougher patch on the job when he’s called to the hospital in the middle of the night. Someone has stolen a newborn baby and left a huge red-and-yellow snake in the infant’s crib. Then the scalped corpse of an insurance investigator turns up in a parking lot. Throw in a local Wiccan sect, some out-of-control coyotes, and an unemployed plumber who has taken to growling at people, and you have a recipe for small-town hysteria. Dobyns peoples this literary chiller with a fully rounded cast of memorable characters, from an eerily self-possessed 10-year-old with an unusual gift to an opera-loving policeman who secretly longs to be a set designer. Expertly paced and smoothly written, this should appeal to both thriller and horror fans. --Joanne Wilkinson
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""The Burn Palace is a beautifully written tale full of wonderfully absurd characters, strange surreal events and horrific acts of violence and violation told is a disconcerting style that is both thrilling and frustrating. It's like an intricate puzzle that comes together beautifully yet leaves you with a handful of unused pieces you don't exactly know what to do with."" - The Guilded Earlobe
About the Author
Stephen Dobyns is the author of more than thirty novels and poetry collections, including The Church of Dead Girls, Cold Dog Soup, and Cemetery Nights. Among his many honors are a Melville Cane Award, Pushcart prizes, a National Poetry Series prize, and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His novels have been translated into twenty languages, and his poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry anthology. Dobyns, who has taught at the University of Iowa and Sarah Lawrence College, teaches creative writing at Warren Wilson College.
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Actor George Newbern has appeared in Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Evening Star, Adventures in Babysitting, and many other films. On television, he has had roles on Scandal, Friends, Nip/Tuck, Hot in Cleveland, CSI, and more. George is also known for providing the voice of Superman in Justice League.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
WOW
By B. Olson
If you're a fan of Stephen King, this novel is for you. Not exactly what could be described as a "thriller"; much more slow-paced (but in a good way), making for extraordinary character development.
THE BURN PALACE takes place in a small Rhode Island town where things have suddenly gone very, very wrong. Missing newborns, roaming coyotes and Satanists...leaving one detective to find the answers while battling a recent break up and a bumbling "acting" police chief.
Stephen Dobyns hits it out of the park with this one. I will be searching out more of his work.
Note: I received this book free of charge from BookTrib.com.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
THE BURN PALACE is worth savoring slowly and re-reading
By Bookreporter
It has been some time since the prolific Stephen Dobyns has favored us with a work of fiction. EATING NAKED, a short story compilation, released at the turn of the century (yes, that sounds strange to me as well), and since then he has confined himself to publishing several collections of poetry. THE BURN PALACE is reminiscent of some of his past work, but nonetheless stands well on its own, seeming at first blush to fit comfortably into this or that genre but ultimately becoming somewhat difficult to classify.
Brewster, Rhode Island, is the unsettling setting for the book; it is a small town whose main industry is summer tourism. Brewster otherwise lies dormant in the off-season, perhaps no more so than in late October, as Halloween approaches and the area all but goes into hibernation. Dobyns uses the opening chapter to introduce a flurry of characters and situations, all of whom eventually intertwine and interact with each other in one form or another.
Things kick off in dramatic fashion when an infant is kidnapped from a local hospital, and a snake is left in the unfortunate baby’s bassinet. Everything is important in these opening pages, from the circumstances under which the infant was snatched to the attitude of the townspeople, who ultimately appear to be more concerned with the presence of the snake than the absence of the baby. This state of affairs includes the mother of the child, who indicates that the child was the spawn of Satan. This, of course, gets the normally quiet town rocking and rolling.
Woody Potter, an extremely taciturn detective, is put in charge of the investigation. Potter, whose personality is such as to render him good at his job but unlucky in love, is faced with multiple problems, as Brewster quickly spirals out of control. When other people begin disappearing, and the local coyote population becomes uncharacteristically aggressive, a supernatural element indeed seems to be at work. There surely are elements of darkly comic relief throughout the book, but the narrative is as likely to induce a gasp as a chuckle at any given moment. The tale itself is not so much linear as circular --- think of the play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder --- with many characters doing many different things, some good and some bad.
One of the more interesting characters is Carl Krause, who is a disaster in the making. All he needs is a prod or two in the wrong direction. Another is his stepson, Hercel McGarty, Jr. who directly and indirectly influences the events that comprise the heart of the book. It is Hercel Jr.’s pet snake that is found in the baby’s bassinet at the beginning of the story. Hercel Jr. himself is one of the more noble figures of the tale, special in ways that can go one way or the other. As his stepfather deteriorates mentally, Hercel Jr. will be called upon to stand up and be counted in ways that he could never anticipate. Before the tale ends, he and the town of Brewster will be forever changed.
THE BURN PALACE revisits, albeit in a somewhat different manner, some of the themes that Dobyns examined in 1997’s THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS, specifically with respect to the manner in which a small town veneer can be quickly stripped when trouble comes calling. Those who fondly recall the “Twilight Zone” episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” will find much to love here as well, as the center of Brewster --- its citizens and their interlocking relationships --- fails to hold in the face of adversity.
Part crime novel, part horror story, and part character study, THE BURN PALACE is worth savoring slowly and re-reading.
Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Couldn't He Come Up with His Own Plot?
By Clarice
I really wanted to like this book, but I've realized that the only book of Dobyns' that I've really liked is THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS. Everything else I've read has been disappointing, and BOY IN THE WATER was downright boring.
THE BURN PALACE starts out promisingly as spooky things start happening in a sleepy Rhode Island town. A baby is kidnapped; a local investigator is killed. Particularly aggressive coyotes begin wandering around town, and a ten-year old boy, Hercel McGarty, realizes he has some minor telekinetic abilities.
If it sounds like a Stephen King set-up, it is, from the New England setting through the kid with psychic powers, through covens and Satanism.
What kept me going for the first couple of hundred pages was the portrait of small-town life and the question of whether the events are supernatural or natural with rational explanations. There's a new-age center in the middle of downtown, and the characters there are consistently the most interesting. There's also a moderate exploration of Wicca and Satanism, which had the potential to be so much more interesting than it turned out to be.
Dobyns started to lose me by the second half, when the book starts to go on and on without moving anything forward. That's when the suspense starts to peter out, and when the reading experience goes from "rather leisurely, but enough to keep me interested" to "oh God, please get on with it!"
Part of the problem, for me at least, was how Dobyns seems to cobble together so many things that have been done before. For example, for the first hundred pages of the book, we keep hearing (explicitly) how the kidnapped baby might be Satan's baby: the characters refer time and time again to Rosemary's Baby. Do you mean to tell me that this novelist was unable to come up with his own plot, so he borrowed someone else's and kindly acknowledged that fact? So many of the other elements seem lifted from Stephen King, too; but throw in a particularly slow-moving police procedural and you have a book that overstays its welcome by at least 100 pages.
The resolutions are all highly unsatisfying. There are many mysteries in the book, none of which are resolved in a satisfying way? (You can keep reading - no spoilers here.) Why the kidnapper replaced a baby with a snake and how s/he got hold of that snake: unresolved. The mystery of the coyotes - resolved in a way that makes little sense. The motivations of the criminals/bad guys of the piece: unresolved and, apparently, unimportant to the author. The relevance of the boy's psychic abilities - unexplained.
Another thing that author did that drove me mad: In the middle of a scene that is supposed to be action-oriented, the author simply stops. He then later goes back and described what happened in the past tense. Why would a writer bring readers to a place of excitement and then abruptly slam the brakes on that excitement?
I was also surprised by the large number of egregious grammatical errors, as well as typos, in this book. Many phrases of the "who he was talking to" variety. Come on, author and publisher: I need to respect a book that I'm reading, especially one that I've paid $20+ for.
On the positive side: I think the cover is fabulous. But overall this book is way too long, too contrived, and too unsatisfying. The worshipful blurb from Stephen King on the back cover should have tipped me off. No more Stephen Dobyns for me.
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