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    Beast: A Novel

    By Paul Kingsnorth

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    The stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The Wake

    Beast     plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don’t yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.

    This short, shocking, and exhilarating novel is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage, and the search for truth that continues the story set one thousand years earlier in Paul Kingsnorth’s bravura debut novel, The Wake. It extends that book’s promise and confirms Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781555979713
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    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth is an acclaimed author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His books include One No, Many Yeses, Real England, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Beast and The Wake, which won the Gordon Burn Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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      I enjoyed parts of it, but did not have the insight to penetrate the book's meaning. As such, the stream-of-consciousness style of the middle portion of the book was flat and confusing to me.