Book description
Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time meet The Big Lebowski in this literary mystery that asks us to examine what stories, real or fiction, become the metaphors we use for working through our own challenges and uncertainties.
Twentysomething Austin lives…
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1 author picked R.I.P. Scoot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Austin is living in a former mop factory when an eyeless street cat adopts him. Then it dies. Then shit gets weird. Sara Flemington’s novel R.I.P. Scoot has a sense of humour so dry it’d snap if you stepped on it. So I don’t recommend that. But I do recommend the book. Very much.
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