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Sheepshagger

Niall Griffiths

2001263 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001Jonathan Cape · 263 pages · ENGISBN 9780224061056
  • 2002Thomas Dunne Books · 263 pages · ENGISBN 9780312300739

"This is the story of Ianto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents. Ianto is a sheepshagger - a yokel, a Welsh redneck. But Ianto is also a seer, a visionary - the genius loci - who comprehends nature with a Blakean intensity, and is at one with the world he lives in: the moss and lichen, the lamb and the raven, the summit and the scree.". "Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. The oppression and abuse that Ianto has faced ignites his lurid imagination into unspeakable savagery."--BOOK JACKET.

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