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Consumed, October 2014
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Scribner
October 2014
On Sale: September 30, 2014
320 pages ISBN: 1416596135 EAN: 9781416596134 Kindle: B00GEECHV6 Hardcover / e-Book
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The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David
Cronenberg: the story of two journalists whose entanglement
in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey
into global conspiracy. Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the
yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers
and competitors—nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation
and depravity, encountering each other only in airport
hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding
Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and
sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and
mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared.
Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her
body. With the help of an eccentric graduate student named
Hervé Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As
she delves deeper into Célestine and Aristide's lives,
disturbing details emerge about their sex life—which
included trysts with Hervé and others. Can Naomi trust Hervé
to help her? Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest
photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed
surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for
organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár’s
patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s.
Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man
who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan
learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre
behavior masks a devastating secret. These parallel
narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot
that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the
Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number
of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant,
provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film
directors.
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