In the tradition of T. C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant forthe macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals. Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together in three mythical tales from Victorian England. Eating Mammals evokes a lost time and place in which the realm of the magical seems almost too possible: a winged cat wreaks havoc in a Yorkshire workhouse and then in the minds of a succession of owners, a famed stunt eater introduces his apprentice, Captain Gusto, to the delicate art of devouring anything for a living, a blooming romance between two meat-pie makers leads thirty-two adorned donkeys to the altar. Wholly original and as assured as folklore, Eating Mammals marks the arrival of a very distinctive new voice.
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ISBN | 9780060591755 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, fiction,short stories,2003,2004,2005, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Harper Collins (US) |
Jahr | 20040914 |
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