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The Resource A carnivore's inquiry, Sabina Murray, (electronic resource)

A carnivore's inquiry, Sabina Murray, (electronic resource)

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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
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A carnivore's inquiry
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A carnivore's inquiry
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Sabina Murray
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eng
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
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Murray, Sabina
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Read by Wendy Hoopes
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  • Murder
  • Young women
  • Maine
  • Mexico
  • New York (N.Y.)
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A carnivore's inquiry, Sabina Murray, (electronic resource)
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9781598871531
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11419254
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Label
A carnivore's inquiry, Sabina Murray, (electronic resource)
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Publication
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unknown
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digital storage
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not applicable
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unknown
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  • not applicable
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 audio file (600 min.))
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unknown
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  • online
  • electronic
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Digital content provided by hoopla
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not applicable
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9781598871531
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(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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not applicable
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown
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digital.
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MWT11419254
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unknown
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access
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sound
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digital recording
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  • other
  • remote
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other
Stock number
11419254
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MWT11419254
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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not applicable
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