| Description |
1 online resource (300 vii, 341 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Storytelling -- All or nothing or something else -- Words/meaning -- Hiding/seeking -- Influence/speechlessness -- Slice of paradise/pieces of shit -- I do -- Storytelling -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.1 online resource ( p.) |
| Note |
Description based on print version record |
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B002SSBD6W (Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)) |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Vegetarianism -- Philosophy.
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Vegetarianism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- Eating animals New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009. 9780316069908 0316069906 9780316072670 0316072672 (DLC) 2009034434 (OCoLC)318877983 |
| ISBN |
9780316086646 electronic bk. Adobe Digital Editions |
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