As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)

by Maria McCann

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Transplant Othello to the tumult of a country in social and political flux and en route to regicide -- England in the 1640s -- and render him uncertain about his sexuality, and you have the makings of Jacob Cullen, one of the most commanding characters in contemporary writing. As the book opens, Jacob is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to imbibe god-fearing revolutionary pamphlets. He is on the brink of marriage to his virginal sweetheart, but is unsure of his emotional needs, and in possession of a boiling point he...Read more
  • ISBN10 015601226X
  • ISBN13 9780156012263
  • Publish Date 7 January 2003 (first published 19 February 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harper Paperbacks
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 588
  • Language English