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All the Little Animals
A beguiling, unsettling and ultimately moving modern fable set on the byways of rural Cornwall; a story about running away, the search for acceptance and burying road-kill.
Bobby is a 31 year old man with the mind of a small, frightened boy. He has run away from his privileged but abusive London home to rural Cornwall. Through an accident of fate he meets Mr Summers, a man...more
Bobby is a 31 year old man with the mind of a small, frightened boy. He has run away from his privileged but abusive London home to rural Cornwall. Through an accident of fate he meets Mr Summers, a man...more
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Published
1972
(first published 1968)
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A tremendous, disturbing little novel about confronting and overcoming fear. In his introduction to this long-overdue rerelease, by Http://www.freightbooks.co.uk, Alan Warner points out that
"Roald Dahl, summing up his favourite books of the year, wrote of it:...more
I got more pleasure from this slim volume than from all the fat novels of the last twelve months put together.
As, I hope, a soon-to-be-reader of this novel, you may encounter a little Joycean irony ( a character's name ) hidden within Dahl'
Originally reviewed at: http://www.booksbiscuitsandtea.co.uk/...
With only 144 pages All the Little Animals is a relatively short read which can easily be read in just a few hours, and one which I, once I picked it up, didn’t want to put down. The book doesn’t have a complicated plot and is most definitely not a white-knuckle ride that will keep you guessing till the end but it doesn’t have to be one in order to be memorable. The appeal of this novel lies not with its complexity but with all thos...more
With only 144 pages All the Little Animals is a relatively short read which can easily be read in just a few hours, and one which I, once I picked it up, didn’t want to put down. The book doesn’t have a complicated plot and is most definitely not a white-knuckle ride that will keep you guessing till the end but it doesn’t have to be one in order to be memorable. The appeal of this novel lies not with its complexity but with all thos...more
A tremendous, disturbing little novel about confronting and overcoming fear. In his introduction to this long-overdue rerelease, by freight books.co.uk, Alan Warner points out that "Roald Dahl, summing up his favourite books of the year, wrote of it:
I got more pleasure from this slim volume than from all the fat novels of the last twelve months put together.
As, I hope, a soon-to-be-reader of this novel, you may encounter a little Joycean irony ( a character's name ) hidden within Dahl's praise."...more
I got more pleasure from this slim volume than from all the fat novels of the last twelve months put together.
As, I hope, a soon-to-be-reader of this novel, you may encounter a little Joycean irony ( a character's name ) hidden within Dahl's praise."...more
This is another one I picked up at the same thrift store in San Fran over 10 years ago. I also loved this very weird book. Once, in the middle of the night I was flipping through stations and found it had been made into a movie. The movie was just as weird
This little fable from 1968 is kind of like a children's story but full of nasty truths for the grups. Poor little animals. Whimsical, sweet, disturbing, and odd.
Stereotypical characters act predictable in likewise predictable poorly constructed (bloody) little story.
A moving book, written from an uncommon perspective. Rather quick to read.
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Freight Books
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