Eating Mammals

by John Barlow

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Three wonderfully original, linked novellas based on bizarre true stories. A new master of the eccentric and the entertaining, John Barlow has been compared to Michel Faber and T. C. Boyle. A winged cat wreaks havoc in a Yorkshire workhouse. An autumnal romance between two pork pie makers is celebrated with a donkey wedding. The strange career of Michael 'Cast Iron' Mulligan is revealed by his unlucky apprentice Captain Gusto -- both men who eat -- and eat anything -- for a living. These are the stories that mark the debut of one of fiction's most original and assured...Read more
  • ISBN10 0007166494
  • ISBN13 9780007166497
  • Publish Date 10 May 2005 (first published 15 March 2004)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperPerennial
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Language English
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