{"product_id":"even-the-dogs-paperback","title":"Even the Dogs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon McGregor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eYiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental\" (James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), this intimate exploration of life at the edges of society is littered with love, loss, despair, and a half-glimpse of redemption―now reissued with an introduction by Yiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll of 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the International Dublin Literary Award, \u003ci\u003eEven the Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e is a daring and humane exploration of homelessness and addiction from \"a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has\" (Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon McGregor is the winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and has been long-listed three times for the Man Booker Prize, most recently in 2017 for \u003ci\u003eReservoir 13\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor of creative writing at the University of Nottingham, England, where he edits \u003ci\u003eThe Letters Page\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary journal in letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53797660197171,"sku":"9781948226721","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TJjO-m15dV9781948226721.webp?v=1785919939","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/even-the-dogs-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}