The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore - Goodreads
2023年10月31日 · This exhilarating, disquieting novel paints a richly imagined life for The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon in 18th-century France: a world of desire, hunger and poverty; hope, chaos and survival.
The Glutton: A Novel Hardcover – October 31, 2023 - amazon.com
2023年10月31日 · This exhilarating, disquieting novel paints a richly imagined life for The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon in 18th-century France: a world of desire, hunger and poverty; hope, chaos and survival.
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The Glutton review: This story of a man who could eat anything is ...
2023年9月15日 · A.K. Blakemore’s second novel, The Glutton, tells the true story of Tarare, a peasant from 18 th -century France who consumed an appalling catalogue of the edible and inedible as his country...
The Glutton Kindle Edition - amazon.com
2023年9月21日 · This is a fictionalized tale of the infamous Tarare, The Glutton, a tortured young man who lived in France around the time of the French Revolution. The story opens at the end of his life where he is comforted by laudanum chained to a hospital bed.
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- 作者: A. K. Blakemore
The Glutton | Book by A.K. Blakemore - Simon & Schuster
This exhilarating, disquieting novel paints a richly imagined life for The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon in 18th-century France: a world of desire, hunger and poverty; hope, chaos and survival.
Book Review: ‘The Glutton,’ by A.K. Blakemore - The New York Times
2023年10月31日 · A.K. Blakemore’s novel “The Glutton” reimagines the life of an 18th-century sideshow performer who could eat almost anything.
The Glutton - Historical Novel Society
Blakemore’s novel is based on the true story of Tarare, a circus entertainer from near Lyon, capable of eating anything: dead rats, offal, live animals too – and in vast quantities. Unable to satisfy his gargantuan appetite, he ultimately transgresses the greatest of taboos.
The Glutton : Blakemore, A. K.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
The Glutton is certain to be one of the most remarkable novels of the year ― Guardian Blakemore takes Tarare's life, recorded only in a medical paper, and puts the meat on the bones. But what meat it is.
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- 作者: A. K. Blakemore
Book Review | ‘The Glutton’ by AK Blakemore
2024年11月8日 · How unreasonable, the Age of Reason, especially for an illiterate — if wildly, imaginatively thoughtful — peasant. AK Blakemore’s new novel The Glutton might be based on a wisp of a fantastical, 18th-century real person, but widens into a shocking fairy tale as vivid as a Breughel or Bosch.
A.K. Blakemore on her new novel 'The Glutton' set in 18th-century ... - NPR
2023年10月28日 · NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author A.K. Blakemore about her new novel, "The Glutton." It's based on an 18th-century Frenchman known for eating just about anything.