Night of the Animals - Hardcover

Night of The Animals is the most beautiful, strange new novel I have read in years, and its obese, mentally ill, elderly protagonist is among the most engaging of heroes. The existence of this book in the present moment is a wonderment. --Mary Gaitskill"

Bill Broun s Night of the Animals is troubling in all the right ways: a vividly imagined dystopia and an ecological parable that seems all too possible and all too real. It s compulsively readable-a novel that earns your close attention, from beginning to end. --Jess Row, author of Your Face in Mine"

An Orwellian debut explodes ancient lore and contemporary technology to create a prescient, terrifying dystopia... highly immersive narrative. The language of the novel crackles with energy The worlds religions-paganism, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Yoruba-fuse together in a luminous supernatural force... An impressive, richly imagined, deeply urgent story --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

Floating aimlessly, in and out of Cuthbert s questionable rationale and disengaged touch with reality, Broun follows the adventures of one man who is both tormented and encouraged by ghosts of his past, and of a mysterious ideology surrounding the spirit of the imprisoned animals that seeks to be free. --The Hoya (Georgetown University)"

Through precise and eloquent prose and a hint of political satire, Broun creates a near future filled with bioelectric technology and characters with patois as diverse as their desires. Broun s novel is strange, witty, and engrossing, skipping through madness and into the realm of myth. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

Imaginative, fast-paced, thoughtful, and awash in laser-like imagery, debut novelist Broun s phantasmagorical fable vibrantly blends myth and satire to paint both a cautionary warning about present behavior and a futuristic vision of what the unbridled abuse of nature might unveil. --Booklist (starred review)"

It s an Orwellian, mystical affair with a peppering of environmental morality, but more than anything it s a wild, weird ride. --Masculine Times"

In prose that employs a variety of British dialects, Broun composes a story that s engaging not only for its strange plot, but for its inventive use of language, too. --Huffington Post, 22 Summer Books You Won't Want to Miss"

A sci-fi fantasy in which the tale of Noah s Ark is recast in modern-day London. --Omaha.com, Five Books You Should Read in July"

Night of the Animals is by turns visionary, ironic, satirical and deeply remorseful. The felled woodlands, the erased species, a new Great Extinction--all happen within one long lifetime. It s a rich addition to the literature of lament, viewed with sympathy and longing. --Wall Street Journal"