Eating animals / Print
Jonathan Safran Foer.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
- vii, 341 p. ; 25 cm. Harback book.
Storytelling -- All or nothing or something else -- Words/meaning -- Hiding/seeking -- Influence/speechlessness -- Slice of paradise/pieces of shit -- I do -- Storytelling.
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.