
Invisible Dogs
Charles Boyle(Author)
CB Editions (Publisher)
Published on 5. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-1-909585-58-4 (ISBN)
Description
Invisible Dogs is the travel diary of an English writer invited to a country in which there are no dogs - but he keeps seeing them, vanishing around corners. There are rumours of dogs gathering in the mountains, preparing for an assault on the city.
Reviews / Votes
'Boyle's wry and wiry prose, an invisible dog in itself, makes an eye contact you can't break and produces thereafter a quietly deadly picture of the viewed and the viewer, the destination and the traveller.' - M. John Harrison'Funny, sinister, thought-moving like light, subtly then increasingly terrifying. Its intelligence reads like relief. Its determination not to language- or life-launder leaves it and the experience of reading it clean and cleansing re the shining and the very dark and the strangeness of us.' - Ali Smith
'Boyle has the playful energy and talent of Lydia Davis or Diane Williams, Eley Williams or Nicola Barker. His eye for detail is remarkable.' - Camilla Grudova, Times Literary Supplement
'Invisible Dogs is a layered book. To paint it as one big Swiftian metaphor about the ease with which we accept the erasure of the most vulnerable, or a simple parable about the smiling removal of freedoms of recent years, wouldn't be enough. It also contains satirical meta-swipes at the fact that, as writers, "we were all in sales", a subtle portrait of the paranoia induced by surveillance, and more besides. Boyle has created something dread-making, with real elegance.' - Declan Ryan, Sunday Telegraph
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
5 black-and-white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
138 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909585-58-4 (9781909585584)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Charles Boyle has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction (sometimes under a pen name) and is founder-editor of CB editions.