Jon McGregor - Even the Dogs

The Telegraph“Slim, controlled and authoritative...” It is grotesque and disturbing, but McGregor brings these people – the sort you glimpse in underpasses – to the forefront and manages to make their bleak lives into something ethereal and haunting...

The New Yorker“Recounted in a jittery, omniscient, plural first person... ” Offers a forceful portrait of the junkies’ tribulations, but characters so single-mindedly devoted to the next fix make tedious literary company...

The Times“A breathtakingly good writer...” Even the Dogs leaves the reader with a sense of solidarity, and many moments of tenderness. McGregor’s register of battered lives reads like a eulogy to the human heart...

Guardian“There are flashes of bitter humour...” McGregor's reportorial absorption in the characters' world, with its restricted range of tone and incident, makes this powerful novel seem all the more resourcefully put together...

Publishers Weekly“Mercifully short...” The central mystery - how did Robert die? - goes nowhere, and the spliced-in set pieces that describe the stages Robert's body undergoes on its way to eventual cremation don't do any favors for this misfire...

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