{"product_id":"carnivores-inquiry","title":"Carnivore's Inquiry","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCarnivore's Inquiry\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSabina Murray\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802142009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Trade Paper\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eSabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject.\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 émigré 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 a 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.\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Carnivore's Inquiry | Sabina Murray | Paperback | 9780802142009 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1760314","offer_id":49199082766488,"sku":"1760314","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/716WZ4zphvL.jpg?v=1780694614","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/carnivores-inquiry","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}