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Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer

By:

Foer, Jonathan Safran, , 1977-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Company , 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 341 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780316069908

Subject(s):

Vegetarianism

DDC classification:

641.303 FOE

LOC classification:

TX392 .F58 2009

Contents:

Storytelling -- All or nothing or something else -- Words/meaning -- Hiding/seeking -- Influence/speechlessness -- Slice 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	641.303 FOE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		032910

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-331) and index.

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.

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