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PRAISE FOR PIG:
I defy anyone not to look at their own life as a result of reading this book. This is not always comfortable reading but it is astute and very good. (Nottingham Evening Post)
A coming-of-age story as strange and surprising, in its way, as THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (New York Times)
A first novel of extraordinary poise and accomplishment ... gripping and moving (Michael Dibdin)
A wholly satisfying book, quietly beautiful and inescapably ominous (David Buckley, Observer)
PRAISE FOR CRUSTACEANS:
Haunting and heartbreaking (The Sunday Times)
Subtly written and superbly crafted ... Cowan has excelled himself with this brilliant and poignant book (Sunday Express)
Told with a tenderness and detail that shine through all [Paul's] dark domestic secrets. CRUSTACEANS is a bleakly beautiful novel ... riveting (Literary Review)
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I defy anyone not to look at their own life as a result of reading this book. This is not always comfortable reading but it is astute and very good. (Nottingham Evening Post)
A coming-of-age story as strange and surprising, in its way, as THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (New York Times)
A first novel of extraordinary poise and accomplishment ... gripping and moving (Michael Dibdin)
A wholly satisfying book, quietly beautiful and inescapably ominous (David Buckley, Observer)
PRAISE FOR CRUSTACEANS:
Haunting and heartbreaking (The Sunday Times)
Subtly written and superbly crafted ... Cowan has excelled himself with this brilliant and poignant book (Sunday Express)
Told with a tenderness and detail that shine through all [Paul's] dark domestic secrets. CRUSTACEANS is a bleakly beautiful novel ... riveting (Literary Review)
From the multi-garlanded author of PIG, a mesmerising tale of the damaging lengths one man goes to in order to make sense of his life
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0340713062
- ISBN 13 9780340713068
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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