Invisible Dogs

Charles Boyle author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:CB Editions

Published:5th Nov '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Invisible Dogs cover

Invisible Dogs is the travel diary of an English writer invited to a country in which there are no dogs - but he keeps seeing them, vanishing around corners. There are rumours of dogs gathering in the mountains, preparing for an assault on the city.

‘Boyle’s wry and wiry prose, an invisible dog in itself, makes an eye contact you can’t break and produces thereafter a quietly deadly picture of the viewed and the viewer, the destination and the traveller.’ – M. John Harrison

‘Funny, sinister, thought-moving like light, subtly then increasingly terrifying. Its intelligence reads like relief. Its determination not to language- or life-launder leaves it and the experience of reading it clean and cleansing re the shining and the very dark and the strangeness of us.’ – Ali Smith

‘Boyle has the playful energy and talent of Lydia Davis or Diane Williams, Eley Williams or Nicola Barker. His eye for detail is remarkable.’ – Camilla Grudova, Times Literary Supplement

‘Invisible Dogs is a layered book. To paint it as one big Swiftian metaphor about the ease with which we accept the erasure of the most vulnerable, or a simple parable about the smiling removal of freedoms of recent years, wouldn’t be enough. It also contains satirical meta-swipes at the fact that, as writers, “we were all in sales”, a subtle portrait of the paranoia induced by surveillance, and more besides. Boyle has created something dread-making, with real elegance.’ – Declan Ryan, Sunday Telegraph

  • Short-listed for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2015

ISBN: 9781909585584

Dimensions: 185mm x 125mm x 11mm

Weight: unknown

126 pages