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Language English Pages 208 pp Originally published 1 February 2010 Country United Kingdom | 3.4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1 February 2010 ISBN 1-408-80947-8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback) Preceded by So Many Ways to Begin (2007) Genres Novel, Experimental literature Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing, London Similar Jon McGregor books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jon mcgregor even the dogs
Even the Dogs is British author Jon McGregor's third novel. First published in 2010, the novel focuses on drug addiction, alcoholism, homelessness, and dereliction. The Irish Times literary critic Eileen Battersby called it a "magnificent" novel. In 2012, Even the Dogs was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest literary prizes.
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The Daily Telegraph published a positive review by David Robson, who remarked that the "movingly told story is also an important book."
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Plot summary
Around Christmas one year, alcoholic Robert John Radcliffe's body is found in his flat. The novel traces, in a stream of consciousness style with occasional flashbacks, how his daughter Laura and her drug addict friends react as authorities investigate his death.