The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan
Hardcover: 293 pages
ISBN: 9780307595089
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date: 2011
Starred review – Library Journal
Starred review – Kirkus
Nominee – Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, 2011
SYNOPSIS:
Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you—and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely.
Jake’s depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicide—even if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to keep him alive.
Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.
SUBJECTS:
Werewolves, Legends, Immortality, Loneliness, Death and dying, Mental depression, Regret, Hope, Fate
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