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Description for Even the Dogs
Hardcover. Very good copy .First edition. Signed by the author
They break down the door at the end of December and carry his body away. On a still and frozen day between Christmas and New Year, a man's body is found lying in his ruined flat. Found, and then taken away, examined, investigated and cremated. As the state begins its detailed, dispassionate inquest, the man embarks on his last journey through a world he has not ventured into, alive, for years. In his wake, a series of fractured narratives emerge from squats and alleyways across the city: the short and stark story of the man, and of his ... Read more
They break down the door at the end of December and carry his body away. On a still and frozen day between Christmas and New Year, a man's body is found lying in his ruined flat. Found, and then taken away, examined, investigated and cremated. As the state begins its detailed, dispassionate inquest, the man embarks on his last journey through a world he has not ventured into, alive, for years. In his wake, a series of fractured narratives emerge from squats and alleyways across the city: the short and stark story of the man, and of his ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747599449
SKU
KEX0303104
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jon Mcgregor
Jon McGregor is the author of the critically acclaimed If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin, and winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham. Even the Dogs is his third novel.
Reviews for Even the Dogs
PRAISE FOR SO MANY WAYS TO BEGIN: 'An homage to ordinary people and ordinary things, to the parts of our lives that often go unspoken moving and honest' The Times 'This is a novel of character and atmosphere The relationship between David and Eleanor from youth to age, imperfect, deeply loving, underpins the whole ... Read more