Description
| Product ID: | 9781910477861 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Wild Dog: Sinister and savage psychological thriller |
| Authors: | Author: Serge Joncour, Polly Mackintosh, Jane Aitken |
| Page Count: | 372 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), First World War fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Animals and society, Nature and the natural world: general interest, First World War fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Animals & society, Natural history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A house on a French hillside. Two couples: the wife of a doctor presumed killed on the battlefields of the First World War, and a mysterious German lion tamer hiding his circus animals from requisition; and Parisian Franck and his wife Lise, who has booked them into the isolated gite to escape twenty-first century life. When a hungry wolfdog emerges from the forest, Franck begins to discover dark secrets about the house, and himself. [A] deservedly award-studded delight Strong Words Magazine ‘A smart, scathing and bleakly funny cross of folk horror, satire and historical fiction’ Toronto Star ‘Reads like a modern fairy tale’ New York Journal of Books
'Eerie and sensual' The Guardian 'So original, so beautifully done, and sinister and savage. I didn’t want it to end' Chris Whitaker Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life. In this remote corner of the world, there is no phone signal. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild in these hills, where a German lion tamer took refuge in the First World War … Franck and Lise are confronted with nature at its most brutal. And they are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think. A literary sensation in France, Wild Dog is a dark, menacing tale of isolation, human nature and the infinite savagery of the wild. |
| Imprint Name: | Gallic Books |
| Publisher Name: | Gallic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-04 |
