Eating Animals

Foer, Jonathan Safran

ISBN 10: 0316069906 / ISBN 13: 9780316069908

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2009

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Inscribed by the author on the title page. A clean and straight first printing in like dust jacket. Bright. 341 pp. Seller Inventory # 230708011

Bibliographic Details

Title: Eating Animals

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Clean & Unmarked

Dust Jacket Condition: Bright

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Printing .

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Synopsis:

<div><b>Part memoir and part investigative report, <i>Eating Animals</i> is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.</b><br><br> Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important. <br><br> Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill. <br><br> Part memoir and part investigative report, <i>Eating Animals</i> is a book that, in the words of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who cares about building a more humane and healthy world.</div>

About the Authors:

<div>Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children.</div>

Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most acclaimed young writers of his generation, a "certified wunderkind" (Time) whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He has earned a National Jewish Book Award, a Guardian First Book Award, and remarkable praise for his first two novels, Everything Is Illuminated (adapted for film in 2005) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. EATING ANIMALS is his first work of nonfiction.