Anyone here ever read or heard of Matthew Stokoe's novel COWS?

[jbloocher at gmail.com]

Cheers Mark! I’ll be getting the ebook if I can.

John Burnside is about as harsh as I’ve managed in the last few years. 

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> On 7 Jun 2019, at 13:17, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just read it, and OOF... it's a real sickie.
> 
> Suicide. Self-harm. Animal cruelty. Rape. Murder. Torture.
> Cannibalism. Bestiality. Necrophilia.  Coprophilia. Abortion. All of
> the above, and it also serves as a meditation on the negative
> dialectic of authority and hierarchy.
> 
> This is Stokoe's first novel, from 1997, and he apparently went on to
> write some award-winning crime fiction, about which I know noting,
> other than the fact that it exists.
> 
> It's a quick read, at 206 pages. If you find extreme fiction at all
> entertaining, maybe give it a go. I did enjoy it, and it did get
> better as it progressed into full-on hallucinatory mode.
> 
> Cheers!
> YOPJerky
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