A Carnivore's Inquiry: A Novel - Softcover

Murray, Sabina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802142001 ISBN 13: 9780802142009

Publisher: Grove Press, 2005

Synopsis

Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject.
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 émigré 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.
A 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Sabina Murray is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0802142001
• ISBN 13: 9780802142009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304