Lives of the Dog-stranglers - Softcover

Mason, Simon

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9780224050470: Lives of the Dog-stranglers

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ISBN 10: 0224050478 ISBN 13: 9780224050470

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1998

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Parkside is a typical suburb in a city in the south of England, its late Victorian terraces occupied by a few remainding elderly residents and new young families. Like any suburb its character is formed by rumour and fantasy. 'This isn't a neighbourhood', one character fumes, 'it's an echo-chamber'. Everyone is the figment of his neighbour's imagination. 'We're anything they want us to be - murderers, redheads, philanderers, dog-stranglers'. A brilliant mesh of interlocking narratives, held together by Parkside itself and the thematic thread of metamorphoses, Lives of the Dog Stranglers is by turn wildly funny, tragic and richly cynical. With a ludic mastery of language and huge curiosity and compassion for his impotent, driven characters, Simon Mason has fashioned an elegant, savage farce of suberbia.

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Synopsis:

Like any suburb in the south of England, Parkside's character is formed by rumour and fantasy and everyone is the figment of his neighbour's imagination: "We're anything they want us to be - murderers, redheads, philanderers, dog-stranglers." This is an elegant, savage farce of suburbia.

About the Author:

Simon Mason is the author of two previous novels: The Great English Nude (1990), which won a Betty Trask Award, and Death of a Fantasist (1994). He lives in Oxford.

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