Animal People

✍ Scribed by Wood, Charlotte

• Book ID: 107606288
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The hilarious, tender and heartbreaking story of a watershed day in the life of Stephen - aimless, unhappy and unfulfilled, this stiflingly hot December day is the day he has decided to dump his girlfriend. A sharply observed, 24-hour urban love story.

Why I can't review Animal People

'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want to recommend it.

'I felt I had been dismantled, cleaned and reassembled by the novel. The novel did not change me. It reintroduced me to the important parts that make up who I am. And this is why I have had such difficulty writing about Animal People.

'To write a review is to accept that this book is like the last book I reviewed. That Charlotte Wood's reason for writing is much like any other...