Eating Animals

Foer, Jonathan Safran

ISBN 10: 0316069906 / ISBN 13: 9780316069908

Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York, New York, 2009

About this Item

This copy of "Eating Animals" has been SIGNED by Jonathan Safran Foer (his full signature) on the title page! Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many stories we use to justify our eating habits -- folklore and pop culture, family traditions and national myth, apparent facts and inherent fictions -- and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.

Seller Inventory # 9160

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eating Animals
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316069906
• ISBN 13: 9780316069908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.

Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.

Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.

Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who cares about building a more humane and healthy world.

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children.