Parkside is a typical suburb in a city in the south of England, its late Victorian terraces occupied by a few remainding elderly residents and new young families. Like any suburb its character is formed by rumour and fantasy. 'This isn't a neighbourhood', one character fumes, 'it's an echo-chamber'. Everyone is the figment of his neighbour's imagination. 'We're anything they want us to be - murderers, redheads, philanderers, dog-stranglers'. A brilliant mesh of interlocking narratives, held together by Parkside itself and the thematic thread of metamorphoses, Lives of the Dog Stranglers is by turn wildly funny, tragic and richly cynical. With a ludic mastery of language and huge curiosity and compassion for his impotent, driven characters, Simon Mason has fashioned an elegant, savage farce of suberbia.
- ISBN10 0099749912
- ISBN13 9780099749912
- Publish Date 1 April 1999 (first published 16 April 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English