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Biographical note
Justin Torres was born in 1980 and grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.A heart-rending coming of age novel - intense, poised and pummelling. Almost pitch-perfect in its nerve-exposed vulnerability
- Helen Davies, Sunday Times
Torres's lyrical treatment of transgression can be shocking... [At] times his prose has the intensity of poetry
- Peter Carty, Independent
A strobe light of a story, its flash set on slow, producing before our eyes lurid and poetic snapshots... I want more of Torres's haunting, word-torn world
New York Times Book Review
It's rare to come across a young writer with a voice whose uniqueness, power and resonance are evident from the very first page, or even the very first paragraph... A slender, tightly wound debut novel by a remarkable young talent... Torres should excite us the way that Raymond Carver or Jeffrey Eugenides did
Washington Post
A searing and sparkling piece of writing that promises great things to come
Esquire
An exciting and unique narrative voice... his powerful, lyrical prose gives even the darkest of scenes a sheen of brilliance
Stylist
Delicious pacing [with a] dark sparkle... It takes you to a place you wouldn't think of going to voluntarily, but you'll be glad for the ride
Gay Times
Oscillating between violence and affection, pathos and humour, the story is enriched by Torres's fresh and ornate prose
- Alex Preston, Observer
The 19 short chapters are each like a round in a boxing match - intense, poised and pummelling
- Helen Davies, Sunday Times
A slender but affecting debut novel... We the Animals is the kind of sensitive, carefully wrought autobiographical first novel that may soon be extinct from the mainstream publishing world
New York Times
A heart-rending fiction debut, about an American boy who grows up and apart from his close-knit family
Sunday Times
Very effectively evokes the physicality of living together at close quarters through tears, laughter and terrible betrayal
- Alastair Mabbott, Herald
Extraordinary... offers powerful imagery and sentences that pierce straight through the skin
Dundee University Review of the Arts