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No 547 Animals by Keith Ridgway
A few year ago I read, and loved, Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway. A surreal esoteric detective novel, its weirdness was wonderful so I was highly anticipating this earlier novel, Animals. Ostensibly, Animals charts the mental and physical breakdown of an unnamed narrator, as he wanders around his city and becomes terrifyingly aware of…
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No 548 The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen
The clue to the premise of The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers is in the title. Thomas Mullen’s novel follows Jason and Whit Fireson, known as the Depression-era bank robbers The Firefly Brothers, as they are killed during a job, only to come back to life. They take advantage of their resurrection to pull…
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