{"product_id":"the-dominant-animal","title":"The Dominant Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Dominant Animal\u003c\/em\u003e – Kathryn Scanlan’s adventurous, unsettling debut collection – compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned and teased for maximum impact. A ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these forty very short stories, the ordinary shifts into the uncanny: in living rooms and in hotel rooms, on suburban lawns and on the surgeon’s chair, characters – human and animal – eat, breathe, provoke and injure one another. Grandmothers sit tethered to the couch in a blue spell, lonesome men crouch among thorny shrubs, pets expire slowly or suddenly, and the nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith exquisite control, Scanlan moves from expansive moods and fine afternoons to unease and violence. Disturbances accrue as the collection progresses. No mercy, a character says – and these stories are merciless and strange and absolutely masterful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daunt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357851033940,"sku":"A8B-31203","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/scan.jpg?v=1790813121","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/the-dominant-animal","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}