Devil's Larder

Name: Devil's Larder
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ISBN: 9780374138592

ISBN-10: 0374138591

ISBN-13: 9780374138592

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jim Crace

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A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to both. Here are sixty four short fictions of at times Joycean beauty--about schoolgirls hunting for razor clams in the strand; or searching for soup-stones to take out the fishiness of fish but to preserve the flavor of the sea; or about a mother and daughter tasting food in one another's mouth to see if people really do taste things differently--and at other times, of Mephistophelean mischief: about the woman who seasoned her food with the…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/7/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award) and, most recently, Harvest. He lives in Birmingham.