Beautiful Animals - Softcover

Osborne, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781090688 ISBN 13: 9781781090688

Publisher: Hogarth, 2017

Synopsis

BOOK OF THE YEAR OBSERVER, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Let's not mince words. This is a great book' Lionel Shriver 'An heir to Graham Greene' New York Times Book Review During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another's lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion. Sinister and ravishing, Beautiful Animals tells the story of two worlds colliding. It exposes the dark heart of friendship, and shows just how often the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions. 'Like The Great Gatsby' New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark and Beautiful Animals. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, Paris Dreambook and The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012, and he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, the New Yorker, Forbes, Harper's and other publications. He lives in Bangkok.

Review

"Both impossible to put down and beautifully written: a great combo" -- Lionel Shriver * Observer Books of the Year * "An astute, unsentimental critique of the contemporary world in crisis... Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as only great writers can do. Beautiful Animals is his most accomplished book so far -- a big, clever, crazed beast of a novel" -- Deborah Levy * Financial Times * "Often almost literally bristling with menace... his Hydra is rugged with physical immediacy. Silhouetted against it, emotions fluctuate, sexual frissons flicker back and forth, destinies tremble in the balance... It's the brilliance with which Osborne conjures all this up that leaves you eager to see where his nomadic imagination will take him next" -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times * "Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice" * New York Times Book Review * "Complex and thrilling, Beautiful Animals confirms Osborne as one of Britain's very best novelists" -- Anthony Gardner * Mail on Sunday *

About this edition

• Publisher: Hogarth
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781090688
• ISBN 13: 9781781090688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295