A reminder that the very best nature writing addresses the savagery of the wild, and of our place in it. The novel's short length, pulsing adrenaline, and constrained setting mimic and mirror the story's subtle brutality
Granta’s UK edition of the book is now in its 5th printing
The Los Angeles Review featured the 2016 Granta edition of this novel, saying, «Jones’s latest book, Cove, is a cinematic epic in under one hundred pages. … Jones takes the Jack London-style story of man vs. nature and twists it so that we see man vs. his own nature when the natural world has gotten inside his head. It is the kind of book that you can read in an afternoon and wouldn’t consider putting down even if it were longer.»
This is a slim book, but we won't position it as slight
Jones is a master of the unsaid, of the assumptions readers make from a story's unanswered mysteries or haunting half-truths—and what these assumptions reveal both about his characters and his readers. Jones writes, “By revealing little details, implications, readers form a relationship with the character based on their own understanding, not my insistence.”
The Dig, one of Jones' previous novels, was longlisted for the Kirkus Prize, and listed as a “Best of 2015” by Brazos Bookstore, Green Apple Books, and the Los Angeles Public Library
127 Hours meets Old Man and the Sea
