Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer.
Title:
Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer.
ISBN:
9780316069908
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Physical Description:
vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Storytelling -- All or nothing or something else -- Words/meaning -- Hiding/seeking -- Influence/speechlessness -- Slices of paradise/pieces of shit -- I do -- Storytelling.
Summary:
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits--from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth--and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
OCLC Number:
ocn318877983
Availability:
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