Even the dogs a novel

✍ Scribed by Jon McGregor

• Publisher: Catapult
• Year: 2019;2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN-13: 9782019952334

✦ Synopsis

**"A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental." --James Wood, The New Yorker **

On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of heroin, they're ghosts in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated.

All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who discovers the body; Laura, Robert's daughter, who stumbles into the drug addict's life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather, who has her own home for the first time since she...