false 5587189 1 In the morning, Bram finds the bones of a murdered child. At noon, the murdered child begs for his help. And by nightfall, they have killed a man together and set off into the afterlife, where nothing is what it was, and death is only the beginning of punishment. An eerie story about the nature of death and the self, Midnight Picnic inhabits an American landscape made strange and unfamiliar. From the author of the cult novel Fires, (9780977669325) Midnight Picnic is a haunting and disturbing experience. 5758530 15 12 2008 Midnight Picnic total:26|5:11|4:13|3:1|2:1|1:0| 26 112 49 11 4 14 false false Tue Mar 24 08:08:31 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 20:38:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:55:10 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 14:52:37 -0800 2009 "Bram pulls into the parking lot half asleep and the crunch of gravel under his tires becomes the crunch of bones. Something screams."

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Midnight Picnic is GUD contributor Nick Antosca's second novel, but is written with such assurance and skill that it might more easily be his twenty-second. On the first page, Antosca draws the reader in to unwilling protagonist Bram's world, which is about to get uncannily strange. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 01:06:46 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 09:16:10 -0800 2009 It reads quick, which in its case gives it a very surreal ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:48:33 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:50:49 -0700 2009
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