New York. 1990. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394584511. Highly Praised 1st Novel About Cows & Dairy Workers. Translated from the German by Michael Hofman. 353 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Germany Literature Translated Switzerland World Literature. DESCRIPTION - COW is a magnificent first novel, masterfully translated by Michael Hofmann, which happens to be about cows and dairy workers, but which transcends its immediate theme to become a powerful and moving piece of fiction about man, his work, and his food at the end of the twentieth century. Not since Herman Melville has an author so powerfully and intricately explored the life-and-death cycle of an animal preyed upon by man. From pasture to dairy to abattoir, Sterchi follows Bl�sch, the lead cow of farmer Knuchel's herd, describing in exquisite prose each detail glorious and stomach-turning of bovine existence. At the same time Sterchi creates a modern-day Ahab named Ambrosio a dark-skinned Spanish guest-worker in milk-white Switzerland, who is not pristine enough, according to the Swiss, to handle live cows, and who is thus relegated to cutting up dead ones. Starting with these two unlikely characters, Sterchi creates a monumental and important work of fiction about beasts and men, about how they prey upon each other and upon themselves. inventory #14043.

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Titre: Cow
�diteur: Pantheon Books
Date de parution: 1990
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 0394584511
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9780394584515
Reliure: hardcover
�dition: First Edition.
�tat de l'article: Very Good in Dustjacket
�tat de la jaquette: Very Good

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The lives and fortunes of Blosch, the lead cow in farmer Knuchel's herd, and Ambrosio, a Spanish worker assigned to the lowly task of butchering dead cows, offer a study of the relationship between humankind and animals

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