Tender Is The Flesh

Author : Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982150920
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tender Is the Flesh written by Agustina Bazterrica and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285723
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wanting Seed written by Anthony Burgess and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.

Author : Joseph D'Lacey
Publisher : Oak Tree Press (Ireland)
ISBN 13 : 9781783331956
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meat written by Joseph D'Lacey and published by Oak Tree Press (Ireland). This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abyrne is a decaying town, trapped by an advancing wilderness. Its people depend on meat for survival. Meat is sanctified and precious, eaten with devout solemnity by everyone. But a handful of people suspect Abyrne is evil, rotten to its religious heart.

Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of All Flesh written by Samuel Butler and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1920 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lize Spit
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509838716
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Melting written by Lize Spit and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Challenging and disturbing, The Melting is an incredibly cruel fable about friendship and adolescence . . . Spit knows no fear. It is we, the readers, that are left trembling.' - Leïla Slimani, author of Lullaby Eva can trace the route to Pim’s farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their grief. Eva was one of three children born in her small Flemish town in 1988. Growing up alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from her loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality. Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that will have serious and violent consequences for them all. Thirteen years after the summer she’s tried for so long to forget, Eva is returning to her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but this time she’ll be prepared. She has a large block of ice in her car boot and she’s ready to settle the score . . . Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, The Melting is an extraordinary and unsettling debut from Lize Spit, a reckoning with adolescent cruelty and the scars it leaves.

Author : Sèphera Girón
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Flesh written by Sèphera Girón and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Alex. She thought she would have some fun, take a chance, maybe fool around a little. Instead she’s lying dead in her own blood, cut open like a slaughtered animal. But the worst is still to come. Her tender young flesh will soon be used in an unspeakable act, an unholy ritual that few sane people could even believe. Alex was not the first, nor will she be the last. Not as long as Vanessa is alive—and she plans to be alive forever. Vanessa’s unnatural life has become a search for victims, virgins to satisfy her body’s need for eternal youth. But Vanessa doesn’t know that there are things in the world more powerful, more terrifying than even herself …

Author : Edward Dahlberg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200295
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because I was Flesh written by Edward Dahlberg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg's life as a child and young man, and a portrait in depth of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it.

Author : Cole Arthur Riley
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 0593239792
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Here Flesh written by Cole Arthur Riley and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. “This is the kind of book that makes you different when you’re done.”—Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter “Reaches deep beneath the surface of words unspoken, wounds unhealed, and secrets untempered to break them open in order for fresh light to break through.”—Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Root, Library Journal “From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.” So writes Cole Arthur Riley in her unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. In these deeply transporting pages, Arthur Riley reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father, and how they revealed to her an embodied, dignity-affirming spirituality, not only in what they believed but in the act of living itself. Writing memorably of her own childhood and coming to self, Arthur Riley boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith: How can spirituality not silence the body, but instead allow it to come alive? How do we honor, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can we find peace in a world overtaken with dislocation, noise, and unrest? In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories, examine our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it. At once a compelling spiritual meditation, a powerful intergenerational account, and a tender coming-of-age narrative, This Here Flesh speaks potently to anyone who suspects that our stories might have something to say to us.

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429937556
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh and Blood written by Michael Cunningham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it is touched by ambition, love, violence, and the transforming effects of time.

Author : Samanta Schweblin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184619
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Dream written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.