{"product_id":"dogs-of-summer-9781474624084","title":"Dogs of Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Shows girlhood as it really was: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebrutal and tender, intimate and lonely, magical and utterly gross'' Anna Beecher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Sensual and dirty, absurdist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand tragic. Abreu''s talent is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethrilling to witness'' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStuck in a working-class neighbourhood, high up among Tenerife''s volcanoes, a ten-year-old girl dreams of hitching a ride to the faraway beach.\u003cbr\u003eInstead she hangs out with her best friend, Isora. She likes everything about Isora. From the colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes to the way she writes the letter g with a huge tail. But she envies her too. Envies her grits and gut; her periods and her pubes; the way she is growing up at full tilt without her.\u003cbr\u003eAs the summer goes on and the heat becomes ever more oppressive, friendship simmers into obsession, desire into intimate violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The sentences blast off the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epages. Hilarious, devastating \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand brilliantly attuned to the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eerotics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature\u003c\/b\u003e -- Fernanda Melchor, author of International Booker-shortlisted Hurricane Season\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike the tide. A force of nature. It drags you. It submerges you. And, all of a sudden, it leaves you stranded on a rich and prophetic insular world of women and low, grey, clouds that merge with the sea. It is pure poetry. A book that carries you and makes you feel a place\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Pilar Quintana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Abreu's characters, like her sentences, are bold and wild. Reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening\u003c\/i\u003e, Abreu's writing twirls and clacks with tactile precision, like winding a cassette tape with a No. 2 pencil. I'll return to \u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e whenever I crave a searing, brutal shot of life\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gabriella Burnham, author of It is Wood, It is Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI am overwhelmed. What a marvelous book, what a miracle\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sara Mesa, author of Among the Hedges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea turns up a notch, or turns it up ten times, in this rescue of poetic tremendismo (expressionist dirty realism). A political book: for the world that has never been given a voice before, and most of all for the phonetical shamelessness, for the syntactical violence, for the incorrectness, the localisms, the linguistic variety, because Andrea Abreu writes for her body and from her body\u003c\/b\u003e -- Marta Sanz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt describes the state of things without beating around the bush giving way to the purest form of tenderness, innocence, and care ... It intertwines the feeling of the first love with the pain that comes with growing up\u003c\/b\u003e -- Brenda Navarro, author of Empty Houses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a powerful narrative, where bodies and hunger take over the story. It transports us to the threshold of puberty, to face a disturbing procession of fears, euphoria and daily violence. An unsweetened and unprejudiced portrait of poverty. Pure life\u003c\/b\u003e -- Irene Vallejo, author of Papyrus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShit. My brain just exploded. What a marvel\u003c\/b\u003e -- Marta Orriols\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRazor sharp and mesmerizing, \u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer \u003c\/i\u003ewill thump through your heart and mind. A novel that consumes and sentences to die for\u003c\/b\u003e -- Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis slim novel's scope and intensity are shockingly, magnificently large, and the sentences blast off the pages with all the sordidness and wonder of early adolescence. Readers will be unable to resist the spell of \u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ea hilarious, devastating story that is brilliantly attuned to the erotics of friendship, the intoxicating muddle of identification and desire, and the power of both the sublime and the profane. The unforgettable girls at the center of Andrea Abreu's moving debut are two of the liveliest fictional creations I've come across in quite a long time\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Abreu's characters, like her sentences, are bold and wild. Reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening\u003c\/i\u003e, Abreu's writing twirls and clacks with tactile precision, like winding a cassette tape with a No. 2 pencil. I'll return to \u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e whenever I crave a searing, brutal shot of life\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gabriella Burnham, author of It is Wood, It is Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e shows girlhood as it really was: brutal and tender, intimate and lonely, magical and utterly gross. I loved it\u003c\/b\u003e -- Anna Beecher, author of Here Comes the Miracle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNothing else matters in the world of \u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer\u003c\/i\u003e other than what these two girls mean to each other. Every crushing, toxic, excruciating, loving, difficult and unboundaried female friendship came hurtling back to me in a tumultuous wave while reading this book, all the sores and salves of a coming-of-age relationship are here in details that feel almost too sacred to be told, but universalised in their telling. I have a new favourite writer, I will read everything she writes. I love it, I love it, I love it!\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rachael Allen, author of Kingdomland","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739619864919,"sku":"9781474624084","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474624084.jpg?v=1720052752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dogs-of-summer-9781474624084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}