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The Long Dry

Cynan Jones
4.8
(5)
Pages
138
Year
2017
Language
English

About

As a Welsh farmer plows through a long, hot day, the boundaries blur between animal and human in this acclaimed, award-winning novel. On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down, there are ducks to go in the pond, there are children, and there is Kate, his wife, who may be an uncrossable distance from him. Jones's rural Wales is alive with the necessities of our own animal instincts and most human longing.

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"Even when nothing is happening in Jones's fiction, a lot is happening, and the natural settings are bountifully alive."
Publishers Weekly
"[The Long Dry] seethes with the brutal squelch of farming, breeding, bleeding, death, and soars with moments of shuddering human frailty and grace."
The Boston Globe
"[The Long Dry] seethes with the brutal squelch of farming, breeding, bleeding, death, and soars with moments of shuddering human frailty and grace."
Boston Globe

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