Beast, Paul Kingsnorth
Beast, Paul Kingsnorth
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Beast

Author: Paul Kingsnorth

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 3 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/01/2017


Synopsis

Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.

This short, shocking, and exhilarating novel is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage, and the search for truth that continues the story set one thousand years earlier in Paul Kingsnorth's bravura debut novel, The Wake. It extends that book's promise and confirms Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.

About Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize; was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize; and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He is also the author of two nonfiction books, One No, Many Yeses and Real England, as well as a poetry collection, Kidland. He cofounded the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink.


Reviews

Book whose only real character is Edward Buckmaster – who we learn left his wife and newly born daughter to move to the Moors in an attempt to find himself and escape modern conformity. The book is written in four sections – which cease and begin abruptly with narrative missing and in which the Engl......more

Goodreads review by Paul

"Come to a place like this, though, and you can still hear it sing. I can tell you that from experience. Come to a place like this, far away from the estates and the ring roads and the car parks and the black fields of beer and the screen-dumb people pacing out the slow suicide of the West around th......more

This was a really strange read but I came away completely enraptured by the story. Our main character is a man named Edward who we learn is living on a west-country moor, completely alone. We are not really told why Edward is on the moor or what has happened prior to him living there but you definite......more