Beast - Couverture souple

Kingsnorth, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555977790 ISBN 13 : 9781555977795

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A portrait of the psyche in gaunt, glittering transcendence. (Jay Griffiths)

Beast is as timeless as it is urgent. Buckmaster emerges as an almost knightly figure, even as his words are ripped from his grasp. The story left behind is spare and unflinching and beautiful. --(William Atkins, author of The Moor)

Kingsnorth's wilderness is a predator. It crouches, half-snarling, half-smiling at our door. There's only one thing worse than meeting it, and that is not meeting it. Kingsnorth is one of the only writers alive with the nerve to look it in the eye and with the hard, taut words to describe what he sees. Like The Wake before it, Beast is an urgent, vital, terrifying triumph. --(Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast)

Beautifully formed, Beast has the purity of an ancient fable with blinding flashes of what it means to be alive today. --(Harry Parker)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The stunning new novel from the prize-winning author of The Wake.

'Come to a place like this . . . and you will understand soon enough that this world is a great animal, alive and breathing.'

Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don't yet know; what he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements and with something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.

This is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage and the search for truth. Short, shocking and exhilarating, it confirms Paul Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1555977790
• ISBN 13: 9781555977795
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176