{"product_id":"animal","title":"Animal","description":"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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat'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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDo you see how this is going? But I wasn't always that way.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI am depraved. I hope you like me.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt thirty-six, Joan knows more than most of the price of pleasure, the quotidian horror of being a woman at the mercy of a man. She knows men, too - their penchant for cruelty, the violence she has absorbed over decades that now threatens to burst from her own hands.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReeling from the public suicide of a former lover, Joan abandons her apartment in New York and drives west for California, in search of the one person who might help her unravel the past. It's here, consumed by a familial trauma that slips through the generations, that she finds herself part of a disparate LA community, while coyotes roam the sweltering hills above the city, poised for the scent of fresh blood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a haunting, visceral novel of women surviving men, Lisa Taddeo has produced one of the most compelling anti-heroines in fiction. Seductive and relentless, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnimal\u003c\/i\u003e draws readers closer to Joan and the brutal mystery of her past, holding them captive until the very last page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2021\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781526630933\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1526630931\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lisa Taddeo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39358513217639,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/Screenshot2021-05-27at11.10.24.png?v=1622110131","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/animal","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}