Don LePan is the founder of Broadview Press, an independent academic publishing house, and the author of several nonfiction books. Animals is his first novel. Born in Washington, D.C., he has lived in Canada for most of his life.
“LePan has an astute understanding of the contradictions and
weaknesses of human nature . . . [Animals] will most certainly make
you look at that steak on your dinner plate a little differently.”
—The Boston Globe
"A powerful piece of writing, and a disturbing call to conscience."
—J. M. Coetzee
“LePan’s storytelling skills are on full display and the narrative
brims with tension . . . Animals is a brave and frequently
fascinating novel, wrought with painful choices, harrowing
journeys, and a deep passion for its subject matter.”—Montreal
Review of Books
“An engaging story that asks deep and challenging questions.”
—Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation
“An engrossing, elegantly written, and timely contribution to the
great tradition of dystopic fiction.” —Kathryn Shevelow, author of
For the Love of Animals
“Devastating. Animals is a powerful novel, and a fully convincing
one.” —P. K. Page
“Well written and engrossing. I found that the story hooked me from
the start.” —Angus Taylor, University of Victoria, author of
Animals and Ethics
“Provocative, original, beautifully crafted and achingly human,
this is a novel that illuminates what we so called ‘higher beings’
strive to keep darkly hidden from our consciousness. No more, no
more . . . destined to become a classic.” —Catherine Banks, author
of Bone Cage
“A deeply moving narrative that can change your life--it did mine.”
—Thomas Hurka, Jackman Distinguished Chair in Philosophical
Studies, University of Toronto
“An impressive book that makes a powerful statement--I think it is
the Animal Farm of these times. It’s also an accomplished work
formally; a flowing narrative forms its central current, but
brilliant shifts in style and narrative voice keep swirling within
that current, and strong commentaries that are moral yet not
homiletic keep forming eddies around it.” —Victor Ramraj, Professor
of English Literature, University of Calgary, editor of Concert of
Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English
"As an analysis of the human capacity to reconcile sentiment with
savagery, it's spot on: psychologically incisive, admirably
disquieting . . . LePan may openly grind his axe, but what makes
the book powerful is just how keenly that axe cuts through our
ethical hypocrisy." —Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail
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