- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape; First Edition edition (28 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224085190
- ISBN-13: 978-0224085199
- Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 1.8 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 425,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Book Bag, 21st July 2008
Beautiful and fatalistic this is a haunting glimpse into the mind of a predator... Beautifully realised with not a word wasted.
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'It is a daring novel that achieves that most elusive of challenges - changing the world a little for the reader.'
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a remarkable book, existing on many layers. On the surface it tells the story, from the animal's point of view, of a wolf's struggle to survive in a harsh environment, but like all the best fiction it allows one to suspend disbelief, and goes on to explore so many aspects of personality that it leaves one with the feeling that one should read it again because one must have missed something.
Tautly written with some wonderfully evocative descriptions it easily avoids the mawkish sentimentality of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull or Watership Down, though just occasionally the language becomes a little convoluted. Highly recommended. It's the authors first book, and is going to be a tough act to follow with his second.
Tautly written with some wonderfully evocative descriptions it easily avoids the mawkish sentimentality of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull or Watership Down, though just occasionally the language becomes a little convoluted. Highly recommended. It's the authors first book, and is going to be a tough act to follow with his second.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Very little approaches the sheer magic of Joseph Smith's daringly sophisticated first novel, which enters the mind of a starving wolf patrolling the harsh winter landscape. A strange encounter with a fox results in an uneasy odyssey. Disney it's not. An austere beauty dictates the lyric, measured prose, which avoids all taint of period pastiche in achieving the dignified glory of an Anglo-Saxon epic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I came to this book thinking it was an author's depiction of what life might realistically be like from a wolf's perspective - and really intrigued because of that. What the novel is, however, is a dreamlike fable with a wolf at its centre, moving from that sort of realism to something with a more human type of intelligence.
It's vivid and captivating, but I did end it feeling a little disappointed - the story centres around a moment of deep understanding and compassion which felt, to me, to distract from what could have been a great authorial trick. That said, I would still recommend people to take a look at the book - it's intriguing, I'm just not certain what the point is.
It's vivid and captivating, but I did end it feeling a little disappointed - the story centres around a moment of deep understanding and compassion which felt, to me, to distract from what could have been a great authorial trick. That said, I would still recommend people to take a look at the book - it's intriguing, I'm just not certain what the point is.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A powerful tale, skilfully told
This is a very convincing story about a wolf, a fox and a swan in a particularly hard winter: it is also an exploration of individuals in circumstances which call into question... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Katerina
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Wonderful read. I read it on the last day of the year. Best book I've read in quite some time. I felt like I was getting a crash course in Zen, totally in touch with sensation,... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Seoulreader
Great inside into the animal's mind... worth every penny!
I loved the book and enjoyed every minute I spent reading it. Did not take me long as I could not put it down. The writing is beautiful and the story full of suspense... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2009 by C. Challinor
An imaginative journey inside the mind of a wolf
This is an impressive first book from Joseph Smith. Although I read it in a day, this was not just due to its short length but also the narrative pace which kept drawing me back... Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by A Common Reader
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