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Little, Brown and Company
November 2009
On Sale: November 2, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0316069906
EAN: 9780316069908
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college
years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on
the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to
make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual
questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers
ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle
of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals
from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal
instincts about right and wrong. 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. Marked by Foer's
profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as
the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous
books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a
celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've
told-and the stories we now need to tell.
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