In 1974, following publication of his second novel, Shardik, he left the Civil Service to become a full-time author.
Adams, famous for writing stories from animals' point of view (Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and Traveller), here creates a story in which the animal, Shardik the Great Bear, is an antagonistic force that generates the entire plot and yet whose status remains ambiguous.
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