Summary
‘Sheepshagger is never less than compelling; the range of Griffiths’s achievement is as exhilarating as the reach of his ambition’ Guardian
Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother’s cottage into a weekenders’ barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285182 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099285185 |
| Author: | Niall Griffiths |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The plotting of the novel is cunning, the performance immaculate… The management and pacing of this material are masterly… He has produced a vital, driven and necessary book – Iain Sinclair * Independent on Sunday *
Niall Griffiths is in complete command of his material… A hymn both ancient and modern to place and to unsentimental belonging * Independent *
A powerful blend of expletive-ridden dialogue and passages of beautiful prose- quite brilliant * The Times *
A fabulous piece of writing… One of the new millennium’s most striking novels to date * Time Out *
The power of Griffiths’s language is astounding, steeped in the wild forces of nature that have helped make Ianto what he is, by turns lyrically beautiful and tumultuously violent * The Times *
Niall Griffiths
Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales. He is the author of six novels:
- Grits
- Sheepshagger
- Kelly + Victor
- Stump
- Wreckage
- Runt
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