A Carnivore's Inquiry

✍ Scribed by Murray, Sabina

• Book ID: 110302165
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 185 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781555847036

✦ Synopsis

From a PEN/Faulkner Award -winning author, The Caprices , seduces readers with a thriller praised as "dazzling . . . lovely, literate and deeply unnerving" (The New York Times Book Review).

When 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 emigre 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...