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The Devil's Larder

The Devil's Larder

by JimCrace (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

The Devil's Larder is a novel in sixty-four parts, exploring our deepest human concerns - love, hate, hopes and desires - through our relationship with food. Packed with delightful and subversive ingredients, with behaviour more suited to the bedroom than to the table, and with the most curious and idosyncratic of diners, this is a sensuous portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes. 'Delicious ...the sheer quantity of inventiveness is astounding' Mail on Sunday 'Funny, frightening and erotic' The Times

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Reprints
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 04 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0330453351
ISBN 13: 9780330453356

Media Reviews
Even by Crace's standards, The Devil's Larder is an extraordinary book. -- The New York Times Book Review
The breadth and range of [Crace's] inventiveness is astonishing. -- Chicago Tribune
The writing is serenely, Nabokovianly accomplished; the imaginative range deeply impressive. -- The Washington Post Book World
Crace creates in The Devil's Larder an indelible sense of a living world, in which human culture is woven to its nonhuman surroundings through the strands of biological destiny and the texture of language itself. -- Boston Sunday Globe
Cruel, lovely, full of passion and decay....With The Devil's Larder, Crace has created a work where prose passes into poetry and back into prose, literature as both particle and wave. -- The Seattle Times

Even by Crace's standards, The Devil's Larder is an extraordinary book. -- The New York Times Book Review
The breadth and range of [Crace's] inventiveness is astonishing. -- Chicago Tribune
The writing is serenely, Nabokovianly accomplished; the imaginative range deeply impressive. -- The Washington Post Book World
Crace creates in The Devil's Larder an indelible sense of a living world, in which human culture is woven to its nonhuman surroundings through the strands of biological destiny and the texture of language itself. -- Boston Sunday Globe
Cruel, lovely, full of passion and decay....With The Devil's Larder, Crace has created a work where prose passes into poetry and back into prose, literature as both particle and wave. -- The Seattle Times

Even by Crace' s standards, The Devil' s Larder is an extraordinary book. -- The New York Times Book Review
The breadth and range of [Crace' s] inventiveness is astonishing. -- Chicago Tribune
The writing is serenely, Nabokovianly accomplished; the imaginative range deeply impressive. -- The Washington Post Book World
Crace creates in The Devil' s Larder an indelible sense of a living world, in which human culture is woven to its nonhuman surroundings through the strands of biological destiny and the texture of language itself. -- Boston Sunday Globe
Cruel, lovely, full of passion and decay....With The Devil' s Larder, Crace has created a work where prose passes into poetry and back into prose, literature as both particle and wave. -- The Seattle Times
Author Bio
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of several books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award) and Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize). He lives in Worcestershire.