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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

Even The Dogs

Even the Dogs: A Novel - Jon McGregor

bookshelves: impac-winner, impac-longlist, hardback, one-penny-wonder, published-2010, paper-read, sleazy, summer-2012, recreational-drugs, washyourmouthout-language, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy, abandoned, room-101, bettie-s-law-of-excitement-lost

Read from June 16 to 26, 2012

 

Impac winner 2012

Dedication:to Alice

Opening 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-back duvet, and in the vests and pants and t-shirts which spill in bitter fistfuls from her drawers.


The sentences are breathless and unfini...




4* If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002)
1* Even the Dogs (2010) - abandoned