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The highly anticipated follow-up to Alexander MacLeod's critically
acclaimed debut, Animal Person is a wry and perfectly-observed
collection of short stories about intimacy, family and the struggle
to connect Animal Person is a collection of startling
juxtapositions. Criminals and bystanders, siblings and strangers,
infants, adolescents, young parents, and the elderly, mammals,
reptiles and fish: unexpected encounters occur and every meeting is
an opportunity for recognition or rejection. An empty-nest couple,
separated after years of coexisting, find themselves pulled into
the dreams of their silent, gazing rabbit; a mysterious passenger
in search of his missing suitcase roams through the caverns of a
1970s LA airport; a piano recital goes wildly astray; and a
great-aunt refuses to apologise as she struggles to find a place
for everything in the tight space of her senior's apartment. In the
adjoining motel room, a serial killer plans his next move; and a
petty argument between two sisters is interrupted by an unexpected
visitor. The eight stories in Animal Person are filled with wonder
and yearning as MacLeod captures the fleeting intensities that
shape all of our lives. MacLeod is a master of the short story
form, and this is a collection that beats with raw emotion and
shimmers with the complexity of our shared human experience.
'Exquisite...expertly paced and finely observed' New York Times
'Excellent... The eight stories, composed in crystalline prose,
glimmer and gleam with yearning and loss' Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
'Tender, funny and ever-surprising' Lynn Coady
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