Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
This is a great book' Lionel Shriver 'An heir to Graham Greene' New York Times Book Review During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one anothers lives to devastating effect.An astute, unsentimental critique of the contemporary world in crisis.. Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as only great writers can do. Beautiful Animals is his most accomplished book so far -- a big, clever, crazed beast of a novel -- Deborah Levy * Financial Times *
Often almost literally bristling with menace… his Hydra is rugged with physical immediacy. Silhouetted against it, emotions fluctuate, sexual frissons flicker back and forth, destinies tremble in the balance… It’s the brilliance with which Osborne conjures all this up that leaves you eager to see where his nomadic imagination will take him next -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *
Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice… The novel takes on the tone of an existential noir, evoking writers like Jean-Patrick Manchette and Georges Simenon... An heir to Graham Greene... he shares with Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller * New York Times Book Review *
Complex and thrilling, Beautiful Animals confirms Osborne as one of Britain’s very best novelists -- Anthony Gardner * Mail on Sunday *
Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark, Beautiful Animals, Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe novel (commissioned by the Raymond Chandler estate) and The Glass Kingdom. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, Paris Dreambook and The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012. The Forgiven is currently being filmed in Morocco, starring Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith and Jessica Chastain, and is due for release in 2021; Hunters in the Dark will shoot in Cambodia in 2021 with Aneurin Barnard, Adam Pettyfer and Tzi Ma; and Beautiful Animals is now in production with Amazon. Osborne lives in Bangkok.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781090688 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781090688 |
| Title | Beautiful Animals |
| Author | Lawrence Osborne |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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