| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (600 min.)) : digital |
| Performer |
Read by Wendy Hoopes. |
| Summary |
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 migr 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 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. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Murder -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Maine -- Fiction.
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Mexico -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hoopes, Wendy.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781598871531 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
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1598871536 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11419254 |
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