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Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
Lina Wolff
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Description for Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
Paperback. An award-winning Barcelona novel with Bolano-esque humor: including lovers, a Mexican maid, Marilyn (a cat), and Bret Easton Ellis (a dog). Translator(s): Perry, Frank. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
This brilliant translation by Frank Perry won the 2017 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the 2019 Bernard Shaw prize At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Cambo, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, ... Read more
This brilliant translation by Frank Perry won the 2017 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the 2019 Bernard Shaw prize At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Cambo, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
And Other Stories United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276643
SKU
V9781908276643
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About Lina Wolff
Lina Wolff has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Manga manniskor dor som du ('Many People Die Like You'; Albert Bonniers Forlag, 2009). Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, her first novel, was awarded the prestigious Vi Magazine Literature Prize and shortlisted ... Read more
Reviews for Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
'Wolff's prose has a quality of otherness entirely in keeping with the surreal atmosphere of the novel. This strange, provocative debut sits well alongside the work of Roxane Gay, Katherine Angel, Maggie Nelson, Zoe Pilger and Miranda July ... a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature.' Sarah Perry, The Guardian
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