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Eating Mammals: Three Novellas

Eating Mammals: Three Novellas

Barlow, John

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0060591757
ISBN13: 9780060591755
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Sep 14 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

In the tradition of T. C. Boyle,
Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant for
the 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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