Runt - Softcover

Griffiths, Niall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099461153 ISBN 13: 9780099461159

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

A gripping story about a boy who, although barely educated, is possessed of extraordinary insights. He leaves school at 16, and goes to live on his widower-uncle's farm. The boy is innocent, spiritual and can also speak a language of his own, a poetry laden with Pagan and Christian myth. Through ecstatic trances he learns that he has an appointed place in the world.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

'Niall Griffiths is a literary star' - Daily Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099461153
• ISBN 13: 9780099461159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160