I don’t normally pick out coming of age stories, but I liked the fact that the university-age protagonist has a past as a competitive swimmer, and the cover is gorgeous. Animal by Lisa Taddeo is a novel full of violence, sex, and power struggles. I liked the sound of this one when I requested it, but now I’ve read more reviews, I fear it might be yet another sub- Black Mirror story about how Tech Is Bad. I’ve had a run of weird luck with novels about the meat industry/slaughterhouses (both Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and Ruth Gilligan’s The Butcherswere in my top ten books of 2020) so I had to see if I’d like this one as well. Lisa Taddeo ha ganado el premio Pushcart en dos ocasiones (2017 y 2019) y realizó el Máster en Ficción de la Universidad de Boston gracias a la beca Saul. Animal is a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society. I loved Three Women and I’m keen to see where Taddeo will go with her fiction debut. Publicación: 6 octubre 2021 Editorial: Principal de los Libros Páginas: 336 ISBN: 978-8417333669 Traductor: Aitana Vega Casiano. This has had SO much hype that it needs no introduction. By Lisa Taddeo Avid Reader: 336 pages, 28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. I’d have preferred it just to have the ’80s horror novel’ cover, which I think is brilliant). (The cover is very weird – it’s a bit clever for its own good. I have to admit I hadn’t heard of this before Rebecca offered me her proof, but I’m intrigued by the idea of a genre-hopping narrative that integrates a range of documents.

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