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Rust and Bone
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Rust and Bone conjures a savage world of prizefighters, gamblers and sex addicts; dogs fight to the death and bare-knuckled men fight for survival on the most extreme margins.
And yet these gritty stories are tempered by gentleness, the quiet understanding in the most intimate relationships. A whale trainer’s accident, a boy’s life endangered – where human vulnerability is so...
Details
256 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘Smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. Remarkable’ Chuck Palahniuk
‘These big, riveting stories are the best I’ve read in a long time from a young writer’ Bret Easton Ellis