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Follows the misadventures of Ianto, a Welsh ignoble savage and genius loci of questionable ancestry and a lurid imagination, who pledges revenge against those responsible for taking away his family home, a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales.

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Written in rough, tough and fiercely native prose, Sheepshagger is a coming-of-age ensemble novel about a bunch of promiscuous, disenchanted, druggy Welsh youngsters, growing up in a world from which they feel disconnected, surrounded by a beautiful countryside they struggle to understand. In the middle and somehow pivotal to this motley Celtic crew is Ianto: a genetically unfortunate ne'er-do-well who yet possesses the spiritual centredness the others lack. It is Ianto who relates to the rurality around them: "the lightning blasted blackthorn", the "same soil his forefathers dug in". As a result of the strange, totemic figure he cuts, Ianto manages to hang with the others and become something of a mascot to them, even though they tease him mercilessly about his virginity. The dialogue is vivid and believable, in an expletive-rich Irvine Welsh way. The intervening descriptions are spare and impressive, although they sometimes strain too hard towards lyricism: "he is like something dredged from the harbour long sodden in silt and brine, a being discarnate of mud and stagnant water". The book culminates in a rural cop-chase; however the true poetic essence of the book is its very contemporary take on Welshness. Griffiths' second novel is a modern-day elegy to the put-upon man-of-the-woods, the long-oppressed Celt, the deracinated Taff, the Sheepshagger. --Sean Thomas
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"The plotting of the novel is cunning, the performance immaculate... The management and pacing of this material are masterly... He has produced a vital, driven and necessary book" (Iain Sinclair Independent on Sunday)

"Niall Griffiths is in complete command of his material... A hymn both ancient and modern to place and to unsentimental belonging" (Independent)

"A powerful blend of expletive-ridden dialogue and passages of beautiful prose- quite brilliant" (The Times)

"A fabulous piece of writing... One of the new millennium's most striking novels to date" (Time Out)

"The power of Griffiths's language is astounding, steeped in the wild forces of nature that have helped make Ianto what he is, by turns lyrically beautiful and tumultuously violent" (The Times)

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  • PublisherThomas Dunne Books
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0312300735
  • ISBN 13 9780312300739
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages263
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