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"Not
since Evelyn Waugh’s The
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
has a
disintegrating consciousness been portrayed so
convincingly. Funny and nightmarish by turns, Animals
is one
of those books that one feels compelled to start reading again as
soon as one has finished it." The
Times
"One
of the most head-tighteningly suspenseful pieces of writing I've
read in years ... compassionate, intelligent and forensic"
Daily
Telegraph
"This
strange, beautiful and deeply troubling novel makes the grade as
genuine art ... [Ridgway is] writing fiction as radically new and
provocative as any of the current generation of writers around
the world, literary darlings with such exotic names as Eugenides,
Hemon, Houellebecq, Kunzru, Murakami, Eggers. " Sunday
Independent
"Like
Nicholson Baker, Ridgway has the descriptive power to locate the
sublime hidden inside mundane minutiae. And like Paul Auster, he
knows how the accretion of ordinariness can be made to seem
overwhelming and sinister to a bewildered narrator. The result is
that Animals
is both
a funny and surprising inspection of the detail of modern life,
and an affecting portrait of a man struggling to make sense of
it" Independent
on Sunday
"An
exceptionally impressive novel" Ireland
on Sunday
"...
seriously good, seriously original writing ... exhilarating,
amusing, puzzling and, sometimes, sickening." Arminta
Wallace, The
Irish Times
"A
bold attempt to convey the fluctuations and fevers of a damaged
state of mind" Guardian
"Deeply
unsettling but utterly absorbing" Metro
"He
turns people inside out, detailing their quirks and
vulnerabilities with engaging perceptiveness…a concatenation of
anecdotes and dream revelations…unnerving in their odd
accuracy" The
Times
"At
once comic and tragic, bright and solemn, this is a tremenduos
work." Dubliner
The
illustrations for the cover of Animals
are by
Ed Firth.
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Beesten
(Animals) is now availble from Manteau/Meulenhoff in
Belgium and The Netherlands, in a translation by Adriaan
Krabbendam.
The
French edition of Animals has now been published by
Phébus. The translation is by Aline Azoulay.
Wagenbach
in Berlin have just published Normalzeit,
the
German translation of Standard
Time. Wagenbach
produced a translation of Horses
last
year.
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