THE DEVIL'S LARDER by Jim Crace - First Edition - 2001 - from Cat's Cradle Booksellers and Biblio.com

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Book summary

These 64 short-short stories by Jim Crace are all about food and appetite in one form or another, including a restaurant that refuses to serve food, a rebellious freezer, a game of "Strip Fondue" at a dinner party, and a middle-aged woman who discovers the pleasures of not only love and sex but food. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Media reviews

"[Crace's] playful and loosely structured new book, THE DEVIL'S LARDER, is...something of a departure from the concentrated narratives of his recent novels....[I]t is more a themed collection of short stories than a novel....THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a slighter book than his previous novels, but it is also more entertaining and in some ways more adventurous....It's good to see the earnest prose-poet of materialism applying a lighter touch and exercising his talent for mischief."

THE DEVIL'S LARDER

by Crace, Jim

First Edition

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Book description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. As New/As New; 165 pages; First American edition stated; As New in black backstrip titled and decorated in gilt and red foil, over red boards; colorful endpapers; in an As New dustjacket. Contains 64 short-short fictions "about food, sex, desire and its death.". First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Bookseller: Cat's Cradle Booksellers (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 003554
Format/binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374138591
ISBN 13: 9780374138592
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place: New York
Date published: 2001
Pages: 165
Size: 5 x 8 x 0.5 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Keywords: Short Stories Food Gastronomy Fiction
Subjects: FICTION / General;

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