Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives in southern Sweden/5(5). Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs. At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Cambó, writer of violent Estimated Reading Time: 40 secs. · Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs by Lina Wolff review – ‘a strange, provocative debut’. This is a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
Find a Library. Media. Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs. Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness of touch, the debut novel in English by Swedish sensation Lina Wolff is a black and Bolaño-esque take on the limitations of love in a dog-eat-dog world. - Kirkus Reviews "Wolff has had enough of the big swinging dicks of masculine literature. [Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs is] clever and challenging Others have it in their blood, unfair as that may seem." Salka Hallström Bornold, Expressen "Lina Wolff's exuberance and narrative zest are exquisite. It talks of a run down brothel in Caudal, Spain, where the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs and naming them after famous male writers. The brothel is briefly mentioned at times in the book, but the explanation for this part of the blurb is a fleeting couple of pages towards the end of the novel, and.
Swedish writer Lina Wolff has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, her first novel, was awarded the prestigious Vi Magazine Literature Prize and shortlisted for the prestigious Swedish Radio Award for Best Novel of the Year. Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs by Lina Wolff review – ‘a strange, provocative debut’. This is a cool, clever and fierce addition to the canon of modern feminist literature. Get a copy at the Guardian Bookshop here. Lina Wolff has lived and worked as a translator and writer in Sweden, Italy and Spain. Her novel Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs has won the.
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