Even the Dogs
by:
Jon McGregor (author)
From the Booker-nominated author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin A TV Book Club selection
From the Booker-nominated author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin A TV Book Club selection
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781408809471 (1408809478)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 195
Edition language: English
I found Jon McGregor's new novel dull, dull, dull. It's a stream of consciousness story about drug addicts and it's just as unappealing as that sounds. I found it to be a quick read and thank goodness for that, because I don't know how much longer I could have read it if it had been any longer.
Impac winner 2012Dedication:to AliceOpening Quote: Cut off from hope, we live on in desire. - Dante Alighieri, 'The Inferno'Opening: They break down the door at the end of December and carry the body away.Page 14: The scent of her lingers in the hollow fibres of the rumpled pillow, and in the turn-b...