Sheepshagger
By: Niall Griffiths
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New  York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Country life -- Fiction; Wales -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "This is the story of Ianto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents. Ianto is a sheepshagger - a yokel, a Welsh redneck. But Ianto is also a seer, a visionary - the genius loci - who comprehends nature with a Blakean intensity, and is at one with the world he lives in: the moss and lichen, the lamb and the raven, the summit and the scree.".

"Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. The oppression and abuse that Ianto has faced ignites his lurid imagination into unspeakable savagery."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2001