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Animal
- Author
- Lisa Taddeo
- Narrator
- Emma Roberts
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 24 June 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her’ Elizabeth Day
'So insanely good and true and twisted it’ll make your teeth sweat' Olivia Wilde
'Like a series of grenades exploding' Marian Keyes
I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig.
That’s a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man.
Do you see how this is going? But I wasn’t always that way.
I am depraved. I hope you like me.
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A 2021 Highlight for: Guardian – Sunday Express – Independent – New Statesman – Evening Standard – Cosmopolitan – Red – Grazia – Daily Mail – Daily Express – The Week – Irish Times – i – The Sun
Critics Review
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One of my favourite authors of all time
Dua Lipa
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Few writers can match Taddeo’s swagger on sentence-level. She has a knack for the unexpected, shocking phrase that feels nonchalantly tossed, like dynamite to a fire
The Globe and Mail
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A compulsive read. Taddeo’s prose glitters with all the dark wit and flashes of insight that readers and critics admired in Three Women . . . Like Coel’s I May Destroy You, Animal is unafraid to wrestle with big questions about sexual empowerment and consent, and doesn’t pretend to have found neat answers
Guardian
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American Psycho for the #MeToo generation
The Times
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Propulsive, fiercely confident . . . Joan’s voice is so sharp and magnetic that the reader will follow her anywhere
New York Times
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Joan’s fury feels fitting, in a new age of righteous rage and brave honesty in female-driven and female-penned art, from Promising Young Women and I May Destroy You, to Raven Leilani’s Luster
Harper's Bazaar
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An explosive, visceral story about childhood trauma, sexual violence, sisterhood and grief. In vivid, unforgiving prose, Taddeo charts the fate of its unforgettable antiheroine, Joan
i
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A raging, funny and fierce thriller with a protagonist whose life force, against extraordinary odds — always in the gaze and sometimes the grasp of predatory, abusive men — is a thing of wonder
Financial Times
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This summer’s most-hyped book and more than lives up to the buzz . . . A dark, disturbing masterpiece, full of righteous female rage – every word roars right off the page
Red
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A fever dream of a read . . . Intense, disturbing and provoking, it’s also a book that’s filled with humanity, sensuality and, in the end, love and hope . . . Read, give to your friends and discuss at length
Stylist
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Wow. Dark, hypnotic and horrifying, with a central protagonist in Joan who demands your deepest empathy despite every transgression, it’s brilliantly written and expertly done. I loved it
Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of Blood Orange and The Lies You Told
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An outstanding novel, unnerving but brilliant
Samira Ahmed, BBC Radio 4 Front Row
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I don’t think there is a writer alive who writes about the interior lives of women with the raw truth and intensity [Taddeo] does . . . Fearless, sexy, brutal and just forensically observed. She is extraordinary
Jojo Moyes
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Raging, hilarious and utterly addictive
Daily Mail
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Scorching, unforgettable, stunningly beautiful, Animal blew my mind and has left me reeling
Clover Stroud
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[An] audacious debut novel
Evening Standard
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Reeling. Stunned. It is ablaze with rage and beauty. You’ve captured all the rage every woman has been suppressing her entire life. Mary Gaitskill eat your heart out
Sam Baker
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Riveting . . . Propulsive, erotic, emotional . . . Joan is almost impossible to look away from on every page
Kirkus Reviews
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The best way I can think to describe Lisa Taddeo’s first novel is “like if Joan Didion got into hard drugs and carried a switchblade everywhere.” Sun-parched, sinewy, and hostile (in a good way)
Harper’s Bazaar
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A riveting, visceral examination of trauma and rage told by a writer whose prose lights a match and burns up the page. Joan is an unforgettable antiheroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her.
Elizabeth Day
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Details
- Author
- Lisa Taddeo
- Narrator
- Emma Roberts
- Duration
- 10 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781526633293
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Feminism and feminist theory, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Animal by Lisa Taddeo, read by Emma Roberts.'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her’ Elizabeth Day'So insanely good and true and twisted it’ll make your teeth sweat' Olivia Wilde'Like a series of grenades exploding' Marian KeyesI drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That’s a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man.Do you see how this is going? But I wasn’t always that way.I am depraved. I hope you like me.——————A 2021 Highlight for: Guardian – Sunday Express – Independent – New Statesman – Evening Standard – Cosmopolitan – Red – Grazia – Daily Mail – Daily Express – The Week – Irish Times – i – The Sun
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