A Carnivore's Inquiry |
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| Author:
| Murray, Sabina |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56511-866-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
| Publisher: | Penguin/HighBridge
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| Book Format: | Other merchandise |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of
A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine comforts and inspires herself by meditating on cannibalism in literature, art, and history, and examining a diverse array of subjects including the Donner Party and the fall of Dante's Count Ugolino. The...
More DescriptionKatherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine comforts and inspires herself by meditating on cannibalism in literature, art, and history, and examining a diverse array of subjects including the Donner Party and the fall of Dante's Count Ugolino. The story races toward a hair-raising conclusion, while Katherine, and the reader, close in on the reasons for her intrigue with aberrant, violent behavior.