Open Throat
27 July 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
'An instant classic' - The Guardian
I’ve never eaten a person but today I might . . .
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign, overlooking the city that humans call ‘ellay’.
Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days grappling with the...
Details
27 July 2023128 pages
9781035007769Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Open Throat is a blinding spotlight beam of a book that I was completely unable and unwilling to put down. I am not convinced Henry Hoke isn’t a mountain lion.Catherine Lacey, author of Pew
An instant classic . . . The writing is so sinuous, so wry and muscular, yet with a padding, pawing playfulness, that you’re ready to go anywhere Hoke wants to take you . . . It’s funny, it’s heartbreaking and nail-bitingly propulsive, with an exquisite Hitchcockian climax.Rahul Raina, The Guardian
The lion king of Los Angeles . . . Hoke’s choice of narrator results in some fang-sharp incisiveness and
The Observer
flashes of brilliant humour
A beguiling and memorable workThe Irish Times
