Animals

At twenty-one the narrator of Victor Park’s ANIMALS knows all he needs to know about people: “when things go bad,” he says, “all of that stuff about morality and refinement and civilization goes right out the window and you’re left with a bunch of savages screwing for warmth and eating each other.” Through this lens he presents the last month of his junior year of college: a month defined by sex, drugs, and a potentially unforgivable crime. ANIMALS is a generation-defining novel about excess, self-absorption, and the narcissism and nihilism of the young intellectual elite.

“The thing you have to understand about me right from the word go is that I don’t have any illusions about humans being this super evolved species. I think we’re basically just animals. We may try to dress it up, try to tell ourselves we’re not, make laws and invent religions, but at the end of the day I think we’re only kidding ourselves...“ - From Animals

Written by Victor Park
Cover design by Tom Maven