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A Carnivore's Inquiry

by Sabina Murray

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ISBN13: 9780802142009
ISBN10: 0802142001
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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.

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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 restless, she begins journeying across the continent, trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine takes to meditating on cannibalism in literature, art, and history. The story races toward a hair-raising conclusion, while Katherine and the reader close in on the reasons for both her and her mother's fascination with aberrant, violent behavior.

A brilliantly subtle commentary on twenty-first-century consumerism and Western culture's obsession with new frontiers, A Carnivore's Inquiry is an unsettling exploration of the questionable appetites that lurk beneath the veneer of civilization.

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Lauren Perez, January 20, 2010 (view all comments by Lauren Perez)
I feel that this book is often overshadowed by her other, better known book The Caprices, but is at least as wonderful a read. Gripping, funny and at times verging on frenetic poetry it's a fantastic read. Normally I hate describing books in reference to other authors, but I would shelve this book next to Poe, Highsmith and Nabokov if that is a useful referent.
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ISBN:
9780802142009
Author:
Murray, Sabina
Publisher:
Grove Press
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Psychological
Subject:
FICTION / Literary
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2005
Edition Description:
First Trade Paper Edition
Publication Date:
20050631
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
1400x1200
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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 restless, she begins journeying across the continent, trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine takes to meditating on cannibalism in literature, art, and history. The story races toward a hair-raising conclusion, while Katherine and the reader close in on the reasons for both her and her mother's fascination with aberrant, violent behavior.

A brilliantly subtle commentary on twenty-first-century consumerism and Western culture's obsession with new frontiers, A Carnivore's Inquiry is an unsettling exploration of the questionable appetites that lurk beneath the veneer of civilization.
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