Fiction. Fargo Burns is a man suffering from the delusion that he is a dog. While receiving treatment for this, he makes the mistake of falling in love with a hitman's beautiful girlfriend.

Fargo Burns, the madly baffled, restless and beguiling subject of Kos Kostmayer's compelling novel, bounces like a pinball between excess and sobriety - as do we, his unsettled readers. Kostmayer's visceral account of one man's quest for quiet normality is dark, tense, playful and deeply affecting.--Jim Crace