
St. Burl's Obituary
Daniel Akst
#3156 of 8,085 books · #943 in Crime & Thriller
Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1997).
A burlesque of death, resurrection and dinner, this novel is a love story, a thriller, and an allegory on the state of modern manhood. When he stumbles one night into a gangland slaying Burleigh Bennett's life of moral virtue and culinary vice is turned upside down.
- Publisher
- MacAdam/Cage Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9780156005142
- Topics
Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
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