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On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has turned, once again, to the bottle. The boy is a spiritual savant: an unwitting repository of folk memory from the margins, barely educated but possessed of extraordinary insights; barely literate but able to speak a language of his own - a poetry laden with Pagan and Christian myth.
He is unaware that he is gifted and unaware of what he knows. But during one of his ecstatic trances, the boy learns that he has an appointed role in the world, which he must discover for himself. During an episode of brutal and climactic violence, he does exactly that.
Told through the boy's internal monologue of beauty and damage, Runt is a powerful, disturbing and moving novel that reinvigorates the language of fiction and illuminates domestic tragedy with a penetrating epic light.
"The writing leaps off the page...it throws up something so original and striking that it takes up permanent residence in a reader's head" (Tim Martin Daily Telegraph)
"Runt is a bungee-jump plummet from modern sophistication into something lurking below, where fantasy takes flesh and ancient knowledge prevails" (Jennie Renton Sunday Herald)
"Runt deserves the hackneyed description 'tour de force' ... it demonstrates Griffiths, a gritty realist, in complete command of the dark despairing gloop that so often smothers human lives" (Tom Adair Scotsman)
"You would have to go back to Thomas Hardy to find a British writer who evokes a landscape so completely" (Time Out)
"Evolutionary psychology meets mythology in this short, strange, savage novel... Niall Griffiths's prose enchants you" (Guardian)
"Runt is a bungee-jump plummet from modern sophistication into something lurking below, where fantasy takes flesh and ancient knowledge prevails" (Jennie Renton Sunday Herald)
"Runt deserves the hackneyed description 'tour de force' ... it demonstrates Griffiths, a gritty realist, in complete command of the dark despairing gloop that so often smothers human lives" (Tom Adair Scotsman)
"You would have to go back to Thomas Hardy to find a British writer who evokes a landscape so completely" (Time Out)
"Evolutionary psychology meets mythology in this short, strange, savage novel... Niall Griffiths's prose enchants you" (Guardian)
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- ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
- Date d'édition2007
- ISBN 10 0224071238
- ISBN 13 9780224071239
- ReliureBroché
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages160
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ISBN 13 : 9780224071239
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR002555557
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Runt This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. N° de réf. du vendeur 7719-9780224071239
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. N° de réf. du vendeur 6545-9780224071239
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. New and unread however some shelf wear to edges of cover and corners. Slight ubumps to edges of cover. Shipped from the UK within 2 business days of order being placed. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000110614
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