Sheepshagger
  • Published: 5 April 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099285182
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

Sheepshagger

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1 Aug 2011
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5 Apr 2002
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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' Guardian

Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his lurid and strange imagination into unspeakable savagery - embodying our most primal fears of physical threat, a world beyond our control.
  • Published: 5 April 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099285182
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for Sheepshagger

Niall Griffiths is in complete command of his material... A hymn both ancient and modern to place and to unsentimental belonging

Independent

A powerful blend of expletive-ridden dialogue and passages of beautiful prose- quite brilliant

The Times

A fabulous piece of writing... One of the new millennium's most striking novels to date

Time Out

The plotting of the novel is cunning, the performance immaculate... The management and pacing of this material are masterly... He has produced a vital, driven and necessary book

Iain Sinclair, Independent on Sunday

The power of Griffiths's language is astounding, steeped in the wild forces of nature that have helped make Ianto what he is, by turns lyrically beautiful and tumultuously violent

The Times
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