

Untouchable
Author: Scott O'Connor
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/03/2011
Categories: Fiction
Author: Scott O'Connor
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/03/2011
Categories: Fiction
SCOTT O'CONNOR is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories and the novels Half World and Untouchable, which was awarded the 2011 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction. His stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Zyzzyva, The Rattling Wall, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches creative writing at Cal State Channel Islands.
This is a very disturbing and yet fascinating book. David Darby is a big, tattooed technician for a trauma-site clean-up crew. He spends every night cleaning up the remains of suicide and murders. His son, Whitley, called The Kid, is a sixth-grader who is a talented artist but who is badly bullied a......more
3.75 I struggled to put a rating on this one. It isn't because it's a bad book but it's not a book to fall in love with. Most people aren't going to like this book. It's not a happy book. This isn't a book you take to the beach to read while you're laying out. This is a book that saddens you. "Untouch......more
*cries*......more
This book is a tough read. It's about how a father and son deal with extreme grief after the sudden loss of their wife/mother. The book really looks at denial (the Kid) and reaction formation (the dad). The shock of the mother's death sent both father and son nearly over the edge. As a reader, you a......more