{"product_id":"a-carnivores-inquiry-sabina-murray-9780802142009","title":"A Carnivore's Inquiry","description":"Sabina 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  migr  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sabina Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802142001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802142009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.60w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2005 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/11\/2005 pg. 32","brand":"Sabina Murray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986683953407,"sku":"9780802142009","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a6494ea-4bb9-430b-ab20-9b730dcf25ca.jpg?v=1683284730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-carnivores-inquiry-sabina-murray-9780802142009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}