false 1724365 6 An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will—and they're bent on domination at any cost. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results. Blending dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos, <i>Sharp Teeth</I> captures the pace and feel of a graphic novel while remaining "as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about" [Nick Hornby, <i>The Believer</I>]. 1721769 2007 Sharp Teeth total:833|5:257|4:358|3:162|2:42|1:14| 833 3301 1545 313 4 36 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 17:26:30 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 13:12:30 -0700 2008 about the good things in life
and the bad.
Oh, you know:
Blood, sex, death, hunger, frenzy
But his
conceit!
His
gall!
Is to structure his story
as 308 pages
of free-verse poetry
whose style this preview crudely mimics.
...more...]]> 4 19 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 22:06:19 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 11:55:50 -0700 2009 Sharp Teeth is weird, beautiful, and audacious beyond measure. Not only is it about tribes of warring werewolves tearing into each other up and down the coast of Southern California and into Mexico, it is also written in free verse. No joke. And it works. It works in spades; it’s a...more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Jul 10 07:17:58 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 07:18:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 true false Mon Feb 25 19:08:50 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 17:11:34 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 19:08:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 05 08:13:38 -0800 2008 Mon May 26 10:01:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Apr 08 06:57:36 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:16:43 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 06:46:04 -0700 2008 Sharp Teeth is something a bit different, and amazingly good.

The book reads like a noir thriller in an epic poetry style. It is on...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 11:27:09 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 14:11:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jul 07 10:49:06 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 11:16:59 -0700 2008
In fact, the book's format turned out to be one of its greatest strengths, as I quickly gathered after the first few pag...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Apr 18 13:13:06 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 07:56:45 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 07:56:45 -0700 2008


It's a thoughtful book. The verse is deceptive. You can breeze right through it and suddenly you've lost a sense of what's going on below the surface....more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 02 14:41:11 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 05 06:27:21 -0700 2009
Then I opened the book and thought "Poetry? WTF? I thought this was paranormal-romance-ish book about...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 02 22:09:33 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 07 13:23:07 -0700 2008
To hell with that. It's probably hard to imagine a well-written book about werewolves, but you'll have to read to understand. Definitely in...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 06:39:47 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 07:56:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 13:02:19 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 17:01:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:07:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:19:48 -0700 2009 so wonderfully, persuasively pitched by GR reviewer extraordinaire David Giltinan. David's review is better than mine will be, and I'd mostly echo his attention to the w...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 08:32:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 08:55:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 09:38:01 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 10:00:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:54:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 13:14:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 22:32:56 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 21:29:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 07:00:01 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 13:07:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 19 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 13:19:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 01:00:16 -0700 2009
In this awesome, exuberant, first book Toby Barlow strips away the city's thin veneer of civilization and lays b...more...]]>