The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

ISBN 10: 067941861X / ISBN 13: 9780679418610

Edité par Pantheon Books, 1996

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Signed by the author on a book plate affixed to the front end paper. This is a stated "First Edition"; first printing, as indicated by the print number line on copyright page. Previous owner's signature in pen on front end paper, the only imperfection to an otherwise fine copy. Dust jacket in Fine condition and in protective mylar cover. See photos.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books
• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 067941861X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679418610
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

With The Ravenous Muse, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, has created a brilliant and witty collection of writing about food and literature. A highly original and macabre selection - with a strong Slavic/Balkan flavor - it's an often surreal look at the whimsical and even comical realm of the pleasures and displeasures of the table. Sometimes food plays a provocative role - the inspiration for something else or a spur to the process of creativity itself.
In these pieces, everything from olives to toffee is used to evoke emotions, characters, or events. Whether it's Raymond Queneau on the flavors of a Paris bus, Turgenev on cleaning shoes with bread crumbs, Flann O'Brien on voracious bicycles, Julio Cortazar on artichokes and time, a midnight snack with Rossini, George Sand sleepwalking into breakfast, Balzac succumbing to the fatal attraction of his coffeepot, Milorad Pavic on bread, or Dickens describing the strangest dining table man has ever known - or become - the reader will be astonished to see food and its rituals in daring new ways.