THE DEVIL'S LARDER
Description
All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder leads to both. Here are sixty-four short fictions of at times Joycean beauty--about schoolgirls hunting for razor clams in the sand; or searching for soup-stones to take out the fishiness of fish but to preserve the flavor of the sea; or about a mother and daughter tasting food in one another's mouth to see if people really do taste things differently--and at other times, of Mephistophelean mischief: about the woman who seasoned her food with the remains of her cremated cat, and later, her husband, only to hear a voice singing from her stomach (you can't swallow grief, she was advised); or the restaurant known as "The Air & Light," the place to be in this small coastal town that serves as the backdrop for Crace's gastronomic flights of fancy, but where no food or beverage is actually served, though a 12 percent surcharge is imposed just for just sitting there and being seen.
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Book Details
- ISBN: 0374138591
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- Format: Hardback
- Publication Date: 2001
- Number of Pages: 165
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- Publisher: FARRAR STRAUS AND GIROUX
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.3 g
