Eating Mammals: Three Novellas

In the tradition of T. C. Boyle,
Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant for
the macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals.

Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together in three mythical tales from Victorian England. Eating Mammals evokes a lost time and place in which the realm of the magical seems almost too possible: a winged cat wreaks havoc in a Yorkshire workhouse and then in the minds of a succession of owners; a famed stunt eater introduces his apprentice, Captain Gusto, to the delicate art of devouring anything for a living; a blooming romance between two meat-pie makers leads thirty-two adorned donkeys to the altar. Wholly original and as assured as folklore, Eating Mammals marks the arrival of a very distinctive new voice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/14/2004
ISBN: 9780060591755
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.66d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2004 pg. 588
Publishers Weekly 07/12/2004 pg. 41
Booklist 08/01/2004 pg. 1895
New York Times 09/26/2004 pg. 24
School Library Journal 01/01/2005 pg. 158