Defeated Dogs

Defeated Dogs

Hardback (20 Apr 2013)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book is the fifth original fiction collection from one of the true eccentrics of modern British writing - stories that blend erudite skill and a startling emotional intensity, classical elegance and unexpected experimentation, sophisticated miserablism and innocent beauty. A fairy tale as dark as they come amid a shattering clash of two opposing and poisoned personalities. A Meyrink-tinged dream of atavism and Italy that awakens the dreamer to philosophy and fate. A quiet and perfectly observed journey through the far reaches of Japan. Myth-working fantasy haunted by the motley ghosts of Lord Dunsany and Matsuo Bashô, and by the imps of postmodernism. A vision of the afterlife where heaven and hell are entwined in torturous symbiosis. The sinister Black Dog folklore re-imagined as a cosmology of thanatophobia. For all the diversity of styles in evidence, they are united by the author's distinctive voice - a window into a crepuscular human world torn between magic and reality, earth and infinity.

Book information

ISBN: 9781908125194
Publisher: Eibonvale Press
Imprint: Eibonvale Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 652g
Height: 163mm
Width: 240mm
Spine width: 32mm