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    Beast
    Beast
    Beast
    Audiobook4 hours

    Beast

    Written by Paul Kingsnorth

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781515983873
    Beast
    Author

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth is an acclaimed author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His books include One No, Many Yeses, Real England, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Beast and The Wake, which won the Gordon Burn Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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    • 1/5
      Waste of time. I don't know why so many reviews are afraid to say it. They hide behind words like brave and poetic. Mostly because when you tell the truth about a book like this you get belittled and told things like "you just didn't understand it". Well let's keep it real. The idea of a book about a man fighting isolation and his own existential crisis sounds like a wonderful read. It starts out ok and I even copied down a quote or two I found really intriguing. Then the rest of the book happened. It is about eighty percent of total nothing. Especially when you're finished at least when you are reading you sort of expect something to happen. Glad I got this at the library and did not pay for it.



    • 4/5
      Well, this is weird one indeed. Quite short but very much to the point. It reminded me of The Third Policeman but without the humour, imagination, panache and around 300 words.

      But I liked it!

      More of meditation that a structured piece of work, although it does have structure. Very early on I worked that I had no idea at all about knowing what I was reading and just let go and went with it.

      I had previously read The Wake by the same author and was knocked out by that so I came to it favourably. At the end, I thought I knew what it was about, but once again I have read no other reviews so I don't know how it appears to others.