Cows - Softcover

Stokoe, Mr Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0987453661 ISBN 13: 9780987453662

Publisher: Matthew Stokoe, 2015

Synopsis

One of the most outrageous, original and insightful books ever written on the subject of alienation and societal decay, COWS is a violent, blood-soaked nightmare - a tale of love, self-empowerment and talking cows. Hailed around the world as a cult classic, Matthew Stokoe's novel set the bar for gritty urban horror. "If you enjoy the sensation of your jaw dropping to the floor in a combination of stupefaction, hilarity, and shock, Cows is your book. Matthew Stokoe has written a novel like no other I've ever read--appalling, funny, and possessed of a sense of outre violence that makes Joris-Karl Huysmans read like Louisa May Alcott." --Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest "Word is out that COWS is every bit as dark and deranged as Iain Banks' classic The Wasp Factory. It's not: it's even more so. Possibly the most visceral novel ever written." --Kerrang! "Do you like cows? Do you have even a tinge of faith in the goodness of man? If so, skip this relentlessly violent survey of some taboos you've heard of, and hopefully, a few new ones that would never occur to you. ... a phantasmagoria of extreme violence, death, sex, bestiality, self-surgery, torture, and a really, really, really bad mother-son relationship, all of which takes what the marquis de Sade did and pushes it down the road a little farther. Stokoe is an able craftsman, which makes the content all the more horrifying as he blasts through boundaries and finds increasingly twisted ways of making readers squirm." --Publishers Weekly

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Review:

BSE was never this mad. A stomach-churning read...a 'Wasp Factory' for the '90's. -- D.Tour

Forget Bret Easton Ellis, Poppy Z Brite, and Dennis Cooper. That's kid's stuff. If you want something truly repellent, try this. -- Gay Times

Stokoe's vision of Hell is a carnivore's nightmare. A powerful and all-too possibly prophetic work. -- Kathy Acker

The word is out that Cows is every bit as dark and deranged as Iain Bank's classic 'The Wasp Factory'. It's not: it's even more so. Possibly the most visceral novel ever written. -- Kerrang!

About the Author:

Matthew Stokoe is a novelist whose work has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and German. In 2014 he was nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière – France’s most prestigious award for crime and mystery writing. He lives with his wife in Sydney, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Matthew Stokoe
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0987453661
• ISBN 13: 9780987453662
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216