Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals

A demolition of two and a half thousand years of thought, Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question their deepest held beliefs

Review: ‘This powerful and brilliant book is an essential guide to the new Millennium. Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions. Who are we, and why are we here? John Gray’s answers will shock most of us deeply. This is the most exhilarating book I have read since Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene’ – J.G. Ballard ‘My book of the year was Straw Dogs. I read it once, I read it twice and took notes. I arranged to meet its author so I could publicise the book – I thought it that good… a devastating critique of liberal humanism, and all of it set out in easy-to-digest (although hard-to-swallow apercus)’ – Will Self, New Statesman ‘One of the most important books published this year, and will probably prove to be one of the most important this century… nobody can hope to understand the times in which we live unless they have read Straw Dogs’ – Sue Corrigan, Mail on Sunday ‘There is unlikely to be a more provocative or more compelling book published this year than Straw Dogs… Gray is one of the most consistently interesting and unpredictable thinkers in Britain’ – Jason Cowley, Observer

Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
Imprint: Granta Books
Publication date: 01/09/2003