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Boxer, Beetle
Ned Beauman
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This is a novel for people with breeding.
Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase.
There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles.
It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining.
We hope you are too.
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Praise for Boxer, Beetle
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a piece of staggeringly energetic intellectual slapstick . . . it's crammed with strange, funny and interesting things - Sam Leith, Guardianan enjoyable confection; witty, ludicrous and entertaining - James Urquhart, Financial TimesAn astonishing debut...buzzing with energy, fizzing with ideas, intoxicating in its language, Boxer, Beetle is sexy, intelligent and deliriously funny - Jake ArnottA rambunctious, deftly-plotted delight of a debut - ObserverNed Beauman's astonishingly assured debut starts as it means to go on: confident, droll, and not in the best of taste . . . Many first novels are judged promising. Boxer, Beetle arrives fully formed: original, exhilarating and hugely enjoyable. - Peter Parker, Sunday TimesFrighteningly assured - Katie Guest, Independent on SundayExuberant . . . There are politics, black comedy, experimentation and wild originality - and I haven't even got to the beetles. Terrific. - The TimesDebut bout is a real knockout . . . dazzling - Daily Express
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