Eating mammals : three novellas / John Barlow.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Perennial, 2004.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 266 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 0060591757
- 9780060591755
- 813 BAR
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100665422 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Eating mammals -- The possession of Thomas Bessie -- The donkey wedding in Gomersel.