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Corrosion
- Author
- Jon Bassoff
- Narrator
- Ramiz Monsef
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 31 May 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From Jon Bassoff, author of The Memory Ward, comes his shattering debut novel—equal parts Jim Thompson, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner
A mysterious Iraq War veteran with a horribly scarred face. A disturbed young man in a strange mountain town. A masked preacher with a terrible secret. Amidst a firestorm of violence, betrayal, and horror, three worlds will collide in an old mining shack buried deep in the mountains.
Corrosion is an unforgettable journey into the underbelly of crime and passion. Drawn from the darkest corners of the human experience, this one is sure to haunt readers for years to come.
Critics Review
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“Bassoff confronts directly the traumatic stress disorder of our world today and tears off its mask, even if the face must follow.”
New York Magazine
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“Sharp, original, fierce, a real gut-ripper.”
Tom Piccirilli, author of The Walls of the Castle
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“A book that cries out to be filmed by David Lynch…The debut novel from the unique Jon Bassoff begins a whole new genre: Corrosive Noir.”
Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series
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“Corrosion is a beautifully bleak noir novel that stretches the boundaries of the genre to its breaking point. A virtuoso performance by the terrific Jon Bassoff.”
Jason Starr, author of Gotham
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“Corrosion is a fever dream, a lucid nightmare. It is at once poetic and brutal; hypnotic and vicious; empathetic and heartless. It is the most effective kind of horror—the kind you believe. Reading it is a deeply uncomfortable experience in the best possible way.”
Marcus Sakey, author of the Brilliance trilogy
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“Like some unholy spawn of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God and Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil All the Time, Corrosion offers pungent writing, a cast of irresistibly damaged characters, and a narrative that’s as twisted and audacious as any I have read in a long while. A dark gem.”
Roger Smith, author of Dust Devils
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Details
- Author
- Jon Bassoff
- Narrator
- Ramiz Monsef
- Duration
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212023405
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Horror and supernatural fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
From Jon Bassoff, author of The Memory Ward, comes his shattering debut novel—equal parts Jim Thompson, Flannery O’Connor, and William FaulknerA mysterious Iraq War veteran with a horribly scarred face. A disturbed young man in a strange mountain town. A masked preacher with a terrible secret. Amidst a firestorm of violence, betrayal, and horror, three worlds will collide in an old mining shack buried deep in the mountains.Corrosion is an unforgettable journey into the underbelly of crime and passion. Drawn from the darkest corners of the human experience, this one is sure to haunt readers for years to come.
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