Cris Freddi

Pork (eBook, ePUB)

A Collection Of Animal Short Stories For Adults

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a huge, dark forest somewhere in the north, a round, rather simple hedgehog called Pork emerges from a pile of leaves in the night... and sets in motion this powerful - and unusual - collection of animal stories for adults.

There is mystery and terror in the great woodland, and there is love. It is a world where fear and death and the survival of the fittest are the pitiless underlying themes. Though they are loosely linked, the stories are written to be read as separate tales, usually with a single main character: an ugly, love-lost squirrel, a wantonly savage stoat, a bat, a veteran hare running before the hounds. They are suspense thrillers or romantic interludes, pure adventure narratives, even horror stories; they all draw us deep into the stern forest through the elements we share with the animals - cold and dark, rain and sun, suspicion, loyalty, the need for warmth and the safety of shelter - above all, the feeling that, even in a world where death is inevitable, there is always enough to make life worth living.

The style is clear, straightforward, often very simple, but there is passion as well as knowledge in the book. It brings the wild creates fiercely to life, in a disturbing way, with menace and unease - but vividly, in a literary debut of great imaginative strength.

"A collection of finely wrought stories. Freddi's imagination is so special and so powerful, his writing so clean and masterly that we are left quite impressed, quite satisfied and wanting more." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Cleverly imagined and beautifully realised." - Newsday

"Manhattan is a picnic compared to the paranoia engendered in this forest. Freddi's literary debut is wondrous in its own way, affectingly terrifying and, above all, strange." - Los Angeles Herald Examiner

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apostrophe Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908556134
• Artikelnr.: 38366338

Autorenporträt

Pork was Cris Freddi's first book. The original edition was written in 1979, when he was 24, and published two years later to that favourite phrase of publishers: widespread critical acclaim. Freddi followed this collection of short stories with his first novel, The Elder, published in 1983. Then a change of direction as he made himself into one of Britain's leading sports historians (one of its top armchair sportsmen, as he put it). His landmark book on the England football team was followed by three editions of the Complete Book of the World Cup, universally recognised as the best ever history of the event. A prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, notably the seminal football fanzine When Saturday Comes, he also wrote a number of sports books for Guinness Publishing. In 1994, he found time to win BBC Wildlife magazine's annual nature-writing competition, then returned to fiction in 2005 with another novel, Pelican Blood, based on birdwatching and murder (a natural pairing, he called it). Published in three different countries, it was made into a film in 2010. Born in Reading of Italian parents, Cris Freddi has lived in London since 1977. He recently visited the wilds of Paraguay to research his latest novel. As in Pork, animals will feature. And birdwatching and murder.