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Original Title:	Even the Dogs ISBN13 9781948226721
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ben, Danny, Heather, Steve Logan, Robert John Radcliffe, Laura Radcliffe, Mike Crossley, Ant
Setting:	England
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award (2012)

Even the Dogs

Jon McGregor

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.47 | 1823 Users | 296 Reviews

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On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too, their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of heroin, they're ghosts in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated.

All their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who discovers the body; Laura, Robert's daughter, who stumbles into the drug addict's life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather, who has her own home for the first time since she was a teenager; Mike, the Falklands War vet; and all the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks, hopes flaring and dying, love overwhelmed by more immediate needs. These invisible people live in a parallel reality to most of us, out of reach of food and shelter. And in their sudden deaths, it becomes clear, they are treated with more respect than they ever were in their short lives.

Intense, exhilarating, and shot through with hope and fury, Even the Dogs is an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society—a deeply humane book littered with love, loss, despair, and a half glimpse of redemption—now reissued with a new introduction by Yiyun Li.

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Title	:	Even the Dogs
Author	:	Jon McGregor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	Expected publication: May 12th 2020 by Catapult (first published February 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

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As I try to write about Even The Dogs I find myself either completely lost for words or drowning in them. Yes, it really is that good.They break down the door at the end of December and carry the body awayThe story arc is simple. The death of one man. Once he had a family, a wife and a daughter, but he fell into alcoholism and they left. His home became a haven for drug addicts. And then he died. His body is discovered, there is a post-mortem and then there is an inquest. Some questions are

As I started the second chapter of this novel, the style reminded me of McGregor's first novel (as opposed to his second, that is - this one is his third) which was exciting, but I quickly realized it was quite different. So far, this novelist hasn't repeated himself.While not a difficult book to read as far as the prose (even if much of it is fragmented thoughts and some of it told in the 2nd-person plural, which works very well especially as you realize the reason), it can be difficult to read

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Jon McGregor is the author of Reservoir 13 unquestionably the novel of 2017 which managed to be shortlisted for two prizes (the Costa and Goldsmith) at opposite ends of the literary prize spectrum, while bafflingly missing out on making it from the Booker longlist to the shortlist.Even The Dogs is McGregors third novel and the only one of his four to date not to be Booker longlisted but which instead won the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.On one level it seems a world

I didn't remember that after reading If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things I'd written.... 'Jon McGregor's next book will very probably be on my "buy instantly in hardback the second it comes out" list.' ....but I did remember enjoying it and I bought this as soon as I saw it in the bookshop. It's not a hardback but some kind of bendy fabric covered not quite a paperback. This edition came out a week before I bought it, I'm not sure if there was a proper hardback released before it. Anyway, I

This book will not be for everyone -- it is too dark and hopeless -- but I thought it was brilliant. The writing is like poetry, and we are drawn forward by the mystery of how the narrating voices connect and to whom those voices belong. There is a suspicious death to be investigated, and we want to know the outcome of the investigation (as do the disembodied voices), but in the meantime we are immersed in a dirty dark confusing world of drugs and alcohol, despair, numbness and waiting. Waiting.

Even the Dogs takes us into the grimy subculture of heroin addiction in a British urban centre. The story is rudimentary. The body of Robert Radcliffe is discovered in a squalid, chaotic apartment about a week after his death from the accumulated effects of long-term alcohol abuse and general physical neglect. Prior to this event Roberts apartment was the nexus for a group of addicts to whom he permitted use of the place to get high so long as they contributed to the supply of food and drink.