Last Werewolf

By Glen Duncan
(Canongate Books, Paperback, 9781847679468)

Publication Date: October 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, Compact Disc, Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback

Categories: Horror - General

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2011 Indie Next List

“With this novel, Duncan has reinvented a genre. Jake Marlowe is literally the last werewolf in existence, and after 200 years he has resigned himself to a date with his executioner at the next full moon. That is, until everything changes. Duncan's razor-sharp writing combines all the gory raunchiness of classic horror with the elegance of top literary fiction, while also managing to include a considerable amount of hip pop culture. This is a smart and engaging thriller that is not to be missed.”

-- Katherine Osborne, Kennebooks, Kennebunk, ME

Description

Glen Duncan delivers a powerful, sexy new version of the werewolf legend, a riveting and monstrous thriller--with a profoundly human heart.
Jake Marlowe is the last werewolf. Now just over 200 years old, Jake has an insatiable appreciation for good scotch, books, and the pleasures of the flesh, with a voracious libido and a hunger for meat that drives him crazy each full moon. Although he is physically healthy, Jake has slipped into a deep existential crisis, considering taking his own life and ending a legend that has lived for thousands of years. But there are two dangerous groups--one new, one ancient--with reasons of their own for wanting Jake very much alive.

'The Last Werewolf' Reinvents A Hairy Myth

Saturday, Jul 23, 2011

Jake Marlowe is cultured, dashing and full of quotable insights. And at 200 years old, he's just discovered he's the last of his kind â�� werewolf, that is. Glen Duncan imagines a race on the brink of extinction in The Last Werewolf. More at NPR.org

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