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A Carnivore´s Inquiry: A Novel
Sabina Murray
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Description for A Carnivore´s Inquiry: A Novel
Paperback. A sly, unsettling exploration of the questionable appetites that lurk beneath the veneer of North American civilization, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Sabina Murray's latest book is a tour de force of intelligent suspense that seduces readers with dark delight on the taboo subject of cannibalism. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322. Fine copy
Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject. When we meet Katherine, the winning-and rather disturbing-twenty-three-year-old narrator, she has just left Italy and arrived in New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She soon strikes up an affair with a middle-aged Russian émigré novelist she meets on the subway, and almost immediately moves into his apartment. Katherine's occasional allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical father suggest a somberness at the center of her otherwise flippant and sardonic demeanor. Soon ... Read more
Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject. When we meet Katherine, the winning-and rather disturbing-twenty-three-year-old narrator, she has just left Italy and arrived in New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She soon strikes up an affair with a middle-aged Russian émigré novelist she meets on the subway, and almost immediately moves into his apartment. Katherine's occasional allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical father suggest a somberness at the center of her otherwise flippant and sardonic demeanor. Soon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Number of pages
294
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802142009
SKU
KST0009805
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