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Animals
Keith Ridgway
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A novel of confusion and paranoia, love and doubt, fear and hysteria: unsettling, unhinged, provocative and bestially funny, ‘Animals’ is for human beings everywhere.
Keith Ridgway's third novel is a psychological menagerie of confusion, paranoia, searching and love. Narrated by an illustrator who can no longer draw, it tells of the sudden and inexplicable collapse of a private life, and the subsequent stubborn search for a place from which to take stock. We are surrounded here – by unsafe or haunted buildings, by artists and capitalists who flirt with terror, ... Read more
Unsettling, unhinged, provocative and richly funny, ‘Animals’ is for human beings everywhere.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers London
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007213320
SKU
V9780007213320
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About Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway is the author of ‘The Long Falling’ which won both the 2001 Prix Femina Etranger and Premier Roman Etranger. His collection of stories ‘Standard Time’ was published in 2001, when he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second novel, ‘The Parts’, was published in 2003 (alongside his novella ‘Horses’) and was shortlisted for the Irish Book ... Read more
Reviews for Animals
‘“Animals” is both a very funny and surprising inspection of the detail of modern life, and an affecting prortait of a man trying to make sense of it.’ Independent on Sunday ‘…the almost stream of consciousness deluge of paranoia and urban myth made real that constitute his recollection ... Read more