Sharp Teeth
By Toby Barlow
(Harper, Hardcover, 9780061430220, 320pp.)
Publication Date: January 10, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (January 8, 2009)
Categories: General
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An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will—and they're bent on domination at any cost.
Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results.
Blending dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos, Sharp Teeth captures the pace and feel of a graphic novel while remaining "as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about" [Nick Hornby, The Believer].
Toby Barlow is executive creative director at the advertising agency JWT in Detroit and a contributor to the literary magazine n+1 and the Huffington Post. He splits his time between Detroit, Michigan, and New York City. Sharp Teeth is his first book.
"Romeo and Juliet, werewolf-style."
-Wall Street Journal
"I'm impressed. I always knew stuff like this was going on in L.A. What a cool book!"
-Christopher Moore
"Forget any reservations you might have about werewolf stories or verse novels. This is great, engaging, wonderful stuff. Sondheim should make it his next musical."
-Michael Moorcock
"A sexy, dark and (well, yes) biting story told by a wizard of sleight of hand."
-Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and What-the-Dickens
"Tremendous.... As ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about. "
-Nick Hornby, The Believer
"I like this book - lycanthropy indeed begins at home."
-David Mamet
"If Ovid had been raised on a steady diet of Marvel Comics, Roger Corman and MTV, he might've written something like Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth."
-Scott Smith, author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan
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