Beast

Author: Kingsnorth, Paul

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Format: Import

Number Of Pages: 176

Release Date: 06-07-2017

Details: Product Description
What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back . . .Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don't quite know; what he faces is a battle with himself, the elements and with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision. A creature that will become an obsession . . .
Review
To read
Beast is a joy. The more of Kingsnorth's intensity you survive, the more you can manage: in the end, your gaze has become as minutely focused as his hermit's. You feel alive. ―
Guardian

Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy. ―
Telegraph


Beast continues Kingsnorth's powerful exploration of the connection between people, place and prose . . . This is a novel bravely wrestling not only with the bestial, but with what it is that makes us human. ―
Observer

Kingsnorth's style is a kind of ancient modernism, and he's really the only writer doing anything like it . . . Writing that is both powerful and singular - Beckett doing Beowulf. ―
London Review of Books

Eerily arresting . . . the book brings to mind such films as Robin Hardy's
The Wicker Man and Michael Reeves's
Witchfinder General . . . There is much potent writing, calm wisdom and quiet understanding in this book.
Beast offers a message for the future as well as a robust challenge to the present. ―
Literary Review

Prose and gaze are inseparable, and Kingsnorth's gaze is so intense it forces a similar intensity from the reader. The smallest shift of the light puts us on edge, on our mettle. Will something terrible happen? The moor, an empty church, an empty lane with something glimpsed swiftly crossing it - all are so menacing because they are so minutely themselves. There's a kind of aching attentiveness necessary to read
Beast, but the narrative easily brings it out in you, and the reward is obvious. ―
Guardian 'Book of the Day'
Book Description
The stunning new novel from the prize-winning author of The WakeSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2017
About the Author
Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel,
The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. His second,
Beast, was described by Jay Griffiths as 'a portrait of the psyche in gaunt, glittering transcendence'. He is also the author of
One No, Many Yeses and
Real England, and a poetry collection,
Kidland. He is the co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.

EAN: 9780571322084

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English