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Sheepshagger (Paperback)

by Niall Griffiths (Author)
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  • Paperback: 266 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (7 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099285185
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099285182
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,504 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Written in rough, tough and fiercely native prose, Sheepshagger is a coming-of-age ensemble novel about a bunch of promiscuous, disenchanted, druggy Welsh youngsters, growing up in a world from which they feel disconnected, surrounded by a beautiful countryside they struggle to understand. In the middle and somehow pivotal to this motley Celtic crew is Ianto: a genetically unfortunate ne'er-do-well who yet possesses the spiritual centredness the others lack. It is Ianto who relates to the rurality around them: "the lightning blasted blackthorn", the "same soil his forefathers dug in". As a result of the strange, totemic figure he cuts, Ianto manages to hang with the others and become something of a mascot to them, even though they tease him mercilessly about his virginity. The dialogue is vivid and believable, in an expletive-rich Irvine Welsh way. The intervening descriptions are spare and impressive, although they sometimes strain too hard towards lyricism: "he is like something dredged from the harbour long sodden in silt and brine, a being discarnate of mud and stagnant water". The book culminates in a rural cop-chase; however the true poetic essence of the book is its very contemporary take on Welshness. Griffiths' second novel is a modern-day elegy to the put-upon man-of-the-woods, the long-oppressed Celt, the deracinated Taff, the Sheepshagger. --Sean Thomas --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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‘Sheepshagger is never less than compelling; the range of Griffiths’s achievement is as exhilarating as the reach of his ambition’
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5.0 out of 5 stars Particularly Significant in Current Political Climate..., 9 July 2001
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A fantastic novel, even exceeding the feat that was Grits. The novel was even more poignant to read given the current controversy over the release of Jamie Bulger's killers. Who is worse; the criminal who commits the atroscity or the vigilantes who jump on the cause as an excuse for further violence? I loved this book as much as I loved the last Griffiths wrote...
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Depressing, but difficult to put down, 27 Jun 2007
By M. Blackburn (Cambridge, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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By the time I had finished this book, I felt that I had witnessed some of the bleakest possible lives. None of the characters seemed to have any direction in their lives, getting relentlessly smashed on booze and a variety of drugs. Their behaviour is at the best anti-social, and at the worst actively ruining the lives of others around them with horrific and graphic violence. And they don't even seem to enjoy getting stoned.
And then the writing is over-elaborate, long detailed sentences overflowing with similes, the sentences bursting with adjectives like popcorn in a cinema bucket; looks grand but has little taste.
Yet I couldn't put the book down. I read it in 2 days (skipping some of the popcorn). After finishing it, I threw the book away, not wanting to inflict the depression on anyone else.
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6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a masterpeice, 28 Feb 2001
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This is the most graphic, desolate book I have read. It is a masterpeice of prose by an obviously very gifted writer.

I simply could not put it down.

well done niall, whats next?

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On the whole i found this book disturbing. Sometimes i couldn't continue reading it and had to have a break. Read more
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The trouble with this book is the unremitting unpleasantness of it all. Yes its bleak, dark and violent, but after 260 pages of this, it tends to become out and out boring. Read more
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