Blackburn

A dark comedy novel about an America of petty injustices and vanished dreams where a sensitive Kansas boy can grow into a killer (Publishers Weekly).Jimmy Blackburn grows up in the Midwest believing the things that adults tell him. He questions his teachers and they lie to him. He questions his parents and his father beats him. He questions the world and it hurts him.And so Jimmy Blackburn becomes a killer amassing at least twenty-one victims. They include law enforcers writers adulterers auto mechanics and other liars. . .This is an exceptional novel at once riotously funny and searingly potent: a vision of America through the eyes of the central bogeyman of our culture.Using stark unadorned prose Denton has created a modern-day parable illustrating the shades of good and evil and the meanings of life. Sometimes humorous but more often heart-wrenching Blackburn delivers a knockout punch to rigid self-satisfied thinking everywhere. Excellent. —Library Journal