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Nightmares mingle with reality in the story of a man whose animal instincts lead him to an affair carried out at the zoo and his bestial subconscious, which can no longer tolerate the safe cage of suburbia
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Neil Jordan is the author of three acclaimed novels and an award-winning collection of stories, all of which are available in John Murray paperback. His most recent novel, SHADE, is published in paperback alongside THE DREAM OF A BEAST. As a director, his films include 'The Company of Wolves', 'Mona Lisa', 'The End of the Affair', and 'The Crying Game', which won him an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
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An unnamed man in an unnamed city beside an unnamed sea becomes increasingly aware of the physical changes being wrought by unbearable heat. The appearance and habits of a whole community are changing. As twisted vines begin to disfigure the walls and oozing succulents sprout from the pavements, alien growths spring up on the man himself. As his speech and shape alter, the words of his wife and his friends turn into gibberish. He shuns the mirror, where the person he sees is unrecognizable; he sleeps on the floor like the outsize beast he resembles. He wraps himself in bandages to protect those he meets from the shock of his strangeness. Banished finally from his house, he wanders through a now unfamiliar environment and meets a young boy who feeds him cornstalks and who is himself outcast. They travel the world, sometimes flying, sometimes swimming, until the boy sickens and dies and the man takes him into his own body. In this surrealistic novella, Jordan ( The Past ), who directed the film Mona Lisa , provides a metaphor for the fragility of holding on to one's identity. Not everyone's book, it nonetheless rewards careful perusal.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus & The Hogarth Press
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0701127406
- ISBN 13 9780701127404
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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