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This is a prose nonfiction book about food and food aversions throughout history.
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About the Author
Alexander Theroux is an award-winning novelist, poet, and teacher whose prose works include Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual, Estonia, and the two artist monographs The Strange Case of Edward Gorey and The Enigma of Al Capp. His novel Darconville’s Cat was chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 greatest post-war novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and children.
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“Does the world need an 800-page book on food phobias, as well as dislikes, simple preferences, aversions, obsessions, squeamishness, food fetishes, fixations, fashions, snobbery, and inverted snobbery? Simple answer: Damn right it does ― and with Theroux at the helm, you can’t help wondering why it wasn’t a thousand, two thousand pages long.”
- Los Angeles Review of Books
“Einstein’s Beets digs up animal and spiritual drives that lure us to gorge and stir us to gag. Alexander Theroux’s eager exploration of this compulsion concocts a subject suited for our foodie, fast-food, gluten-free, all-you-can-eat, prix fixe, happy hour, organic-this, vegan-that, voracious diet-doomed appetites.”
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- PublisherFantagraphics
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1606999761
- ISBN 13 9781606999769
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages784
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