Apastoral: A Mistopia
(By Lee D. Thompson)
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Winner of the 2022 New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction.
Harold "Bones" Malone has become an unnatural thing. Convicted of murder, he is tried and sentenced to become Constock, a new penal system wherein the worst of society have their brains transplanted into farm animals — pigs, goats, even llamas; and Bones' case, a Shetland Sheep. Not wanting to live out his days in petting zoos, or fleeing from other animals in rut, Bones decides to make a run for it, to return to the city and, somehow, clear his name... But the Constockade is vast, little sheep, and is patrolled by wolves with prison-guard brains.
"This is a novel that's bleak and funny, down beat but bumptious. You can see Lee inverting mores, ideas, professions, moods, logic, and the bestial nature of the human animals in ways that says this is all madness!" Jeff Bursey, from the Introduction.
"[A] biting satire of penal systems and performative justice that skewers its victims and their advocates as cleanly as it does the authors of a system that would surgically insert the brains of convicts into farm animals. Lee D. Thompson’s writing is propulsive and inventive, bursting with energy, wit, and silliness." Leslie Greentree, author (Fiction judge, 2022 NB Book Awards)
"A stream-of-consciousness excursion into the animal mind of human suffering that chills to the bone even as it tickles the rib. Its unique brand of brutality reads with the haunting familiarity of a recurring nightmare." Steven Mayoff, author
"The book reads with the zest of a Marx brothers caper, with all the layers of humor, the periodic moments of seemingly simple genius, a wealth of detail, and plenty of narrative shifts." Rich Harsch, Publisher
Purchase at coronasamizdat[dot]com (original edition) or your online dealer of choice (revised POD edition).”
