Eve's Apple: A Novel - Softcover

Rosen, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312424361 ISBN 13: 9780312424367

Publisher: Picador, 2004

Synopsis

Ruth Simon is beautiful, smart, talented, and always hungry. As a teenager, she starved herself almost to death, and though outwardly healed, inwardly she remains dangerously obsessed with food. For Joseph Zimmerman, Ruth's tormented relationship with eating is a source of deep distress and erotic fascination. Driven by his love for Ruth, and haunted by his own secrets, Joseph sets out to unravel the mystery of hunger and denial. This gripping debut novel is a powerful exploration of appetite, love, and desire.

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Review:

This novel is a psychological journey into the heart of Ruth Simon, a young woman struggling to overcome the eating disorder that nearly killed her in her teenage years and still haunts her in adulthood. Although Ruth has stopped starving herself, she is still hungry all the time. Told through the eyes and voice of her lover, Joseph, Eve's Apple is about the search for the elusive cause of Ruth's unrequited appetite, and about the essential nature of desire and longing that everyone experiences in one form or another.

From the Inside Flap:

t story of a vulnerable young woman, her lover, and the devastating disease that both unites and threatens to destroy them offers a raw and sentimental journey into the dark world of hunger and denial. Eve's Apple is an unforgettable first novel, an intricate meditation on the nature of hunger--for food, for knowledge, and for love.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312424361
• ISBN 13: 9780312424367
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320