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The Burn Journals

By Brent Runyon

By Brent Runyon

By Brent Runyon

By Brent Runyon

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Oct 11, 2005 | ISBN 9781400096428

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    About The Burn Journals

    Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors and  Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery

    In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match.

    He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.

    About The Burn Journals

    Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors and  Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery

    In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match.

    He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.

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    About Brent Runyon

    "The second hardest thing to do in life is to change from a child into an adult. There are so many ways to mess up. So many ways to get lost. It’s like crossing the ocean in a rowboat."–Brent RunyonFROM… More about Brent Runyon

    About Brent Runyon

    "The second hardest thing to do in life is to change from a child into an adult. There are so many ways to mess up. So many ways to get lost. It’s like crossing the ocean in a rowboat."–Brent RunyonFROM… More about Brent Runyon

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Psychology

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 11, 2005 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400096428

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Psychology

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 11, 2005 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307276957

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    Praise

    “[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.”  -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon“A fascinating account of the mending of a body and mind, told with the simple and honest sensibility of someone too young to have endured so much.” —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha"Runyon has, perhaps, written the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes…unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge ." –Booklist (starred review)"A taut, chilling account of the author’s attempt to commit suicide…a must-read for teenagers struggling with self-doubt."-The Denver Post“An excruciating, brilliant book…WOW.” —A.M. Homes, author of Things You Should Know

    Awards

    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age WINNER

    Pennyslvania Young Readers Choice Master List WINNER 2006

    Rhode Island Teen Book Master List WINNER 2007

    Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List WINNER 2006

    Missouri Gateway Readers Award NOMINEE 2007

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