7.2 /10 1 Votes
Publication date 2005 ISBN 978-1-903517-34-5 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Media type Print Originally published 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lobster is a novella written by Guillaume Lecasble, translated by Poly McLean and published in the UK by Dedalus Books in 2005.
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Reception
The novel received positive reviews in the press. Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian, enjoyed Lobster, concluding "There was a Lobster-shaped hole in world literature which has now been neatly filled by this remarkable work.".
In The Daily Telegraph, Sam Leith recommended it in a list of 'Mad Stuff'.
In Kirkus Reviews, the novel received a positive review which recommended it as a "brief, bizarre, boiling broth of surrealism, romantic fatalism and slapstick."
Publisher's Weekly also enjoyed the novel, calling it "both tender and appalling".
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