Runyon, Brent

The Burn Journals

Vintage:
New York: 2005
First printing, Trade paperback, New,
325 pp
Cover artwork by: Mark Abrams

In 1991 Brent Runyon was fourteen years old. One day in 1991 he came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline and lit a match. He suffered third degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in various hospitals and rehab centers. During rehab, he began to question what he had done. He began the difficult journey back to health, high school and emotional stability. This is his story. It gets compared to RUNNING WITH SCISSORS and GIRL, INTERRUPTED. Call it morbid curiosity, psychological investigation or whatever, a story like Runyon’s makes for interesting and insightful reading.   #31584