Cynan Jones. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-56689-393-0
Welsh writer Jones's brutal, lyrical, slim novel centers on two men—widowed sheep farmer Daniel and an illicit badger baiter known only as “the big man"—living in present-day rural Wales. Spare in its plotting, the story follows both men as their...
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Cynan Jones. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-56689-436-4
Disenfranchised men desperate to improve their lot populate this lyrical novel by Jones. Adopting the diptychlike structure he used in his previous novel, The Dig, Jones presents two central characters with divergent backgrounds but a shared sense...
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Cynan Jones. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-56689-465-4
A farmer mulls the frustrations of family and the hardships of agrarian life in this beautifully written short novel by Welsh writer Jones (Everything I Found on the Beach). Gareth, a husband and father of two, wakes up on a summer morning to...
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Cynan Jones. Catapult (PGW, dist.), $19.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-936787-84-5
In this genre-bending novel, Jones (The Long Dry) presents a harrowing tale of resilience. An unnamed man kayaks out into a bay one morning to spread his dead father’s ashes. When a sudden storm rolls in, he is struck by lightning. He awakes with...
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Cynan Jones. Catapult, $15.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-64622-013-7
Welsh writer Jones’s haunting and lucidly written latest (after The Long Dry) is set in a bleak future where water is so precious that a Yorkshire city has fashioned an “ice dock” to trap an iceberg it has dragged down from the Arctic. The archaic...
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