Neil Jordan's second novel, THE DREAM OE A BEAST, is quite literally, a dream. A man leaves his suburban home and goes to his office where he is working on a drawing for a campaign to advertise the scent of musk, whose animal attraction is peculiarly appropriate to the relationship developing
The central character is Emery Jago, an ambitious young man with a ferocious desire to escape from poverty. He feels that he is special, and this leads him to the occult. Gibbs does a very good job of presenting this character, who uses fraud quite blatantly yet clings to a belief that he genuinely
