Season to Taste: A Novel
Autor Natalie Youngen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 iul 2014
Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes cakes for the village parties.
No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday and Lizzie snapped and cracked him on the head with her garden shovel. No one quite misses Jacob though, and Lizzie surely didn't kill him on purpose. And now that she has the chance to live beyond his shadow, she won't neglect her good fortune. Over the course of the following month, with a body to get rid of and few fail-proof options at hand, Lizzie will channel her most practical instincts and do what she does best: she'll cook Jacob, and she'll eat him. But when Lizzie inadvertently befriends an isolated misfit, she will be tested: Will Lizzie turn to this new person for solace and abandon her desperate plan or will her new friend be an unwitting accessory to her crime?
Dark, unexpectedly funny, and achingly human,Season to Tasteis a deliciously subversive treat. In Lizzie Prain, Natalie Young has created one of the most remarkable and surprising heroines in fiction.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316282482
ISBN-10: 0316282480
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 219 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316282480
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 219 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Natalie
Youngis
a
London-based
writer.
Her
first
novel,We
All
Ran
Into
the
Sunlight,was
published
in
England
in
2011.
She
has
written
articles
forThe
Times,
theSunday
Times,Prospect,
andMslexia.
Recenzii
"Yes,
it
really
is
a
novel
about
a
woman
who
eats
her
husband,
but
only
as
much
as,
say,
Rapunzel
is
a
story
about
a
woman
who
won't
cut
her
hair.Season
to
Tasteis
a
modern-day
fable
about
the
end
of
love
and
moving
on.
Natalie
Young
has
given
us
a
shockingly,
thrillingly
original
new
vantage
on
a
timeless
story
of
a
marriage's
demise."
-Stefan
Merrill
Block,
author
ofThe
Storm
at
the
Door
"An enjoyable feast of anger - witty and poised." -Deborah Levy, author ofSwimming Home
"A very smartly told tale... clever and twisted and a lot of fun."—Booklist
"Most books about murder focus on the act of homicide (which can be all too instant and easy), so it makes a toothsome change to read one about the disposal of the body... As she slices her husband's carcass into edible portions, one meal at a time, making a numbered series of notes to herself (or to anyone who might want to try this at home), Lizzie also dissects the sad truths of her marriage and her hitherto malnourished existence. Cannibalism is her final act of congress with Jacob, and it's fascinating to witness. Natalie Young's sparse prose captures Lizzie's daze and confusion as she eats, cooks, eats, and may take you to some dark places as you ponder the way your own current relationships sustain you."—Lit Reactor
"An enjoyable feast of anger - witty and poised." -Deborah Levy, author ofSwimming Home
"A very smartly told tale... clever and twisted and a lot of fun."—Booklist
"Most books about murder focus on the act of homicide (which can be all too instant and easy), so it makes a toothsome change to read one about the disposal of the body... As she slices her husband's carcass into edible portions, one meal at a time, making a numbered series of notes to herself (or to anyone who might want to try this at home), Lizzie also dissects the sad truths of her marriage and her hitherto malnourished existence. Cannibalism is her final act of congress with Jacob, and it's fascinating to witness. Natalie Young's sparse prose captures Lizzie's daze and confusion as she eats, cooks, eats, and may take you to some dark places as you ponder the way your own current relationships sustain you."—Lit Reactor