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Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don’t yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.
This short, shocking, and exhilarating novel is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage, and the search for truth that continues the story set one thousand years earlier in Paul Kingsnorth’s bravura debut novel, The Wake. It extends that book’s promise and confirms Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.
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“Simon Vance has made of this dark, lyrical Kafkaesque novel an utterly riveting listening experience…For Vance to become that man as he does, in full sympathy, and make the listener see and hear and feel with Buckmaster, is devastating work. A superb production. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“With its echoes of Kafka and of dread-filled, myth-driven tales like John Gardner’s Grendel, Kingsnorth’s Beast is as cryptic as it is thrilling.”
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“A tour de force, reminiscent of the best of John Fowles and David Mitchell.”
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“Wild and spectacular.”
— Boston Globe
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A 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Best Literary Fiction and Classics Narration
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth is the author of several books. He is cofounder of the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists, and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink. His first novel, The Wake, was long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize and the Folio Prize, was short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize, and won the Gordon Burn Prize.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.