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Dinosaurs On Other Planets

By Danielle McLaughlin

Dinosaurs On Other Planets
€12.99
  • Publisher: Stinging Fly Press
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Available in: Hardback
  • ISBN: 978-1-906539-51-1
  • Published: 1st October 2015
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A woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he has left behind; a mother struggles to understand her nine-year-old son’s obsession with dead birds and the apocalypse. In Danielle McLaughlin’s stories, the world is both beautiful and alien. Men and women negotiate their surroundings as a tourist might navigate a distant country: watchfully, with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. Here are characters living lives in translation, ever at the mercy of distortions and misunderstandings, striving to make sense both of the spaces they inhabit and of the people they share them with.


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Review by Lara Feigel, The Guardian

Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form it remains flexible in its idea of truth. The opening sentence of the novel is the motto from Jennifer’s school: “To be […]

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