Lobster (novel)

Lobster
Author Guillaume Lecasble
Publication date
 2005
Media type Print
ISBN ISBN 978 1 903517 34 5

Lobster is a novella written by Guillaume Lecasble, translated by Poly McLean and published in the UK by Dedalus Books in 2005.

Reception

The novel received positive reviews in the press. Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian, enjoyed Lobster, concluding "There was a Lobster-shaped hole in world literature which has now been neatly filled by this remarkable work.".[1]

In The Telegraph, Sam Leith recommended it in a list of 'Mad Stuff'.[2]

In Kirkus Reviews, the novel received a positive review which recommended it as a "brief, bizarre, boiling broth of surrealism, romantic fatalism and slapstick." [3]

Publisher's Weekly also enjoyed the novel, calling it "both tender and appalling".[4]

References

  1. ↑ Lezard, Nicholas (9 July 2005). "Cooked to perfection". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ Leith, Sam (5 Dec 2005). "Mad Stuff". The Telegraph.
  3. ↑ "An erotic shellfish fable.". Kirkus Reviews. Nov 1, 2005.
  4. ↑ "Lobster". Publishers Weekly. 2005-10-10.

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