false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1197322385m/1373849.jpg 1373849 1 Colin St. Claire is on a dangerous mission. His young son is missing, and he is on a self-appointed quest to find the boy, or at least find the man he believes is responsible. Fueled by uppers and a profound lack of sleep, Colin’s road soon becomes an uncontrollable spiral of blurry white lines, of fleeting forms in the night, ghosts of memory as intangible as vapor . . . Assisting him is Robert Heim, a former private investigator who lost his license in the line of duty—and it is a sense of warped duty that still ties him to Colin, though his own family, a loving wife and children, beckons him back home . . . The answers for both men may lie not with the man they believe is the perpetrator, but with a long-suffering farmer’s wife, Beverly “Sis” Pruitt, whose own daughter was claimed by violence, years prior. In the shape of a noir thriller, Curnutt fashions a gripping tale of the consequences of unchecked grief, of painful truths hidden as though they were dark secrets, and what salvation remains possible for good men who enter the darkness and become the ghosts they are chasing. 1363732 20 2 2007 Breathing Out the Ghost total:32|5:13|4:10|3:3|2:4|1:2| 32 124 143 22 4 15 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 18 17:30:41 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 30 13:26:18 -0700 2009 In nomine diaboli the protagonist, Colin St. Claire, says, "Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men." I was reminded of that line from The Great Gatsby in which the narrator says of Gatsby, "He sprang from his Platonic con...more...]]> 5 10 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 05:22:26 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 07:11:14 -0700 2008
Kirk Curnutt is fucked in the head.]]> 4 9 false false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 18:07:06 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 14:45:19 -0700 2008
The main characters in the novel have experienced this loss, and t...more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 20:11:59 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 11:57:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 7 false false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 17 10:07:04 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 11:55:08 -0800 2008
This type of book is right up my alley: full of shadowy characters with messed-up lives and the monsters they're wrestling with in their heads. Kirk's not afraid to go to some very scary pla...more...]]> 5 7 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 10:28:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 19:55:12 -0700 2008
There is this feeling that kinda creeps up on you when you read this book. At first it’s like an itch and you can swat at it, pinch it, scratch the living hell out of it and it goes away. Mind over matter kind of situation but then it sort ...more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 17:16:35 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 17:03:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 07 00:48:10 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 00:03:24 -0800 2008 Buy.com and B&N are out of stock, I was just about to buy it, argh. (Amazon has 1 copy left, but I'm boycotting them.)

I'm almost 1/2 done, and just started it today too. Even though the subject matter that everyone is reacting to fills me with dismay and distaste (missing and murdered ch...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 11:22:13 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 00:57:37 -0700 2008 on the road following leads, leaving behind a wife and daughter, and giving up on any kind of normal life.

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(Breathing out the Ghost with Lions at My Heels)

Dear Kirk,

My wife worries about our kids being kidnapped by a homicidal maniac in a clown suit who drives around in a funky little panel van containing three litters of Labrador puppies and a bagfu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 01 16:40:09 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 16:40:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 14:02:37 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 13:18:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 18:57:53 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 13:36:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 13 12:33:31 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 12:35:09 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Tue Apr 28 17:22:59 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:13:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 11:32:17 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 23 06:22:13 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 17 13:11:33 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 09:34:55 -0800 2009
Looking forward to discussing this with Bookclub. ]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 09:47:45 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 05:48:30 -0800 2008
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