My favorite book of the year so far, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston is a rollicking, rambunctious, hilarious roller coaster of a book. I never thought I would be into a book about people whose job it is to clean up murder scenes, but Huston paints with broad, inviting strokes. Trash bags filled with (living) cockroaches, tattoos, "fix-it" men, smuggling, kidnapping, hijacking... this book has it all and serves it up on a (although at times repulsive) platter I was all too happy to devour. I laughed, I cried, I may have even sweated. Loved it!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Maggots got nothin' on us...
My favorite book of the year so far, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston is a rollicking, rambunctious, hilarious roller coaster of a book. I never thought I would be into a book about people whose job it is to clean up murder scenes, but Huston paints with broad, inviting strokes. Trash bags filled with (living) cockroaches, tattoos, "fix-it" men, smuggling, kidnapping, hijacking... this book has it all and serves it up on a (although at times repulsive) platter I was all too happy to devour. I laughed, I cried, I may have even sweated. Loved it!
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