The idea of lycanthropy has never been so hypnotically lyrical. The blending of urban heat and gothic savagery is blackly funny - and it works beautifully. At last a writer has appeared who is unafraid to do something new with an old form. It's odd, intriguing, absorbing, at times beautiful and always unique. This free-verse novel about the lusts and longings and furies of a group of lycanthropes in Southern California may just turn out to be one of the literary highlights of the decade. It's eccentric and original, but it might just get the readership it deserves. Sharp Teeth is darkly funny, witty, philosophical in its quirky, deceptive way, technically accomplished and strangely moving. Vigorous, enjoyably bloodthirsty, Sharp Teeth would make a stunning graphic novel Guardian it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about Nick Hornby His evocation of urban werefolf underworld is both inventive and probable New Statesman But beneath growls an unbroken note of menace.A love story so taut that you could floss with it The TimesÄaringly original. Once bitten, I was smitten by its beauty Joseph O'ConnorĪlongside the sharp plotting, the poetry is exhilarating to read.The book's emotional register is similarly expansive, moving from the drily witty to the horrific and, often unexpectedly, the very moving. A hot-tongued, howling wolf of a book, strange and tender, luscious and cool, frisky as a pup but with a mouthful of fangs.
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