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FEVER OF ANIMALS

Miles Allinson

With the inheritance he received upon his father's death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of a Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in trying to write about Bafdescu's secret life, Miles must also reckon with his own.

Isolated by both language and geography, and condemned to wait for someone who may never arrive, Miles is haunted by thoughts of his ex-girlfriend, Alice, and the trip they took to Venice that ended their relationship.

Intense, strange, and exquisitely written, FEVER OF ANIMALS is a multilayered story of art and loss, and one man's journey into his own underworld.

Miles Allinson is a writer and artist. He was born in Melbourne in 1981 and was educated in both the Steiner and the Catholic school systems. He has a Bachelor of Creative Arts and a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, as a well as a Masters Degree in Fine Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT University. FEVER OF ANIMALS is his first novel, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2014.

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Book Published 2015-09-01 by Scribe Publications

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Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2014

UK: Scribe (April 2016)

... an unsettling and deeply impressive debut.

Fever of Animals is the exceptional first novel from Miles Allinson. It draws the reader completely into the world of Miles, a failed artist who is living off the last of his savings in a small town outside Berlin, and trying to make sense of his past. This is a worldly book, full of art and ideas, and yet so intimate that it feels like a conversation with a dear, intelligent friend. It is at once wry and tender in its depiction of Miles, whose struggles with letting go of love; of illusion; of his dream to be an artist are keenly rendered and endearingly human. Fever of Animals is masterful in its treatment of time and memory, and filled with such clarifying moments of observation and insight that it is heartbreaking to reach the final page. This is an exquisite, painterly novel, and Allinson is a writer destined for a cult following. - Emily Bitto, Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays

Heartfelt, darkly comic, and nothing short of extraordinary. Allinson's novel is a rarity fearless, finely judged, and alive with mystery. - Andrew Croome, Vogel Prize-winning author of Midnight Empire and Document Z