Animals Eat Each Other
by Elle Nash
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Pub Date 9 May 2019 | Archive Date 15 Aug 2019
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Description
A young woman with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mum. She begins to recognise the dark undertow of obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife’s edge between pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing isolation of the present. With stripped-down prose and unflinching clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the loss of self that accompanies it.
Advance Praise
‘A complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire’ - Publishers Weekly
'A desire map, a cartography of eros. A heartbomb’ - Lidia Yuknavitch
‘A complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire’ - Publishers Weekly
'A desire map, a cartography of eros. A heartbomb’ - Lidia Yuknavitch
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781912489169 |
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Featured Reviews
Keith M, Reviewer
There's already a special place in my heart for this novel; for me, it's been an inspiration to draw-out stories from within myself to put ink-on-paper/pixels-on-screen...
The characters have been so carefully constructed and are full of depth from the moment they appear to the moment they disappear, naturally brought to the storyline as if they existed in real-life and were relatable to the author's self in one form or another.
Heavily drawing life into an ethos of colourful characters from the secluded space of a real-life small community in the heart of America has worked brilliantly in feeding my soul with the want, need, desire, for more of the same...
With many cultural references afoot (just one of the relatable reasons) to bring about the belief of current-day on-going (presumably) realities (for Americans at least, many things haven't - yet - been brought over to us in the UK), this novel is soaked in a preemptive setting for what is about to be experienced in a hundred-and-something pages of:
- 'Third-eye'-opening poetry ("In pain all senses are heightened. The mind has to go deeper than the immediate to be okay.", "Jealousy is the admission to yourself that you are replaceable.", to quote just a few);
- A feast of soul-feeding, thoroughly-descriptive, sexy, love-yearning, scenes throughout; for me, 'From Feathers' and 'Self Deceit is Not Undefiled Wisdom' were two awesomely killer chapters as a (family) man that could relate to the read;
There are many more positive and wonderful things I could say about this novel, from an author of whom has now opened for me the doors to a world of similar authors, (aspiring-to-be) writers and followers-of-authors, but seeing as this novel is yet to be released (as of today, 10th March 2019) all I will say is go and experience this for yourselves, and come back to me with all the suggestions in the world for anything similar because I want more and I want it as soon as more is available..
Thank goodness, for the time being, I can seek out fellow authors, like Elle Nash, through her social media followers, tweets, and re-tweets, as well as her Publisher: 404 Ink; and according to the back pages, Dzanc Books of whom first published the material.
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