Mammoth
Paperback Published on: 06/08/2024
Price: £12.99
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Incredible Writing from Baltasar
Mammoth was my first Eva Baltasar, which probably ruined any objective sense of how much I enjoyed it – I was too busy admiring the prose. And I love a tru... READ MORE
An interesting story that delves into queer perspectives of isolation.
This was the first novel I read by Eva Baltasar, so at first I had to adjust to her writing style. Once I had, though, my eyes were stuck to the pages. I r... READ MORE
Synopsis
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Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work - all in pursuit of life in the raw.
This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar’s wild voice.
Publisher information
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- ISBN: 9781916751002
- Number of pages: 144
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
- Weight: 111g
- Languages: English