M. F. K. Fisher

The Theoretical Foot

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An undiscovered novel by an iconic American food writer - the publication of this enchanting portrait of 1930s bohemian life will be a major literary event'I sank into The Theoretical Foot like a fat strawberry into whipped cream ... Intimate and moral, funny and wise, there is something incantatory about her style ... She is not just a great food writer. She is a great writer, full stop' Rachel Cooke, ObserverSusan and Joe never want this perfect summer to end. It is the 1930s, and society frowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin - but judgement is suspended at the haven on Lake Geneva where Joe's friend Sara and her lover Tim pre… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4088-8006-7
EAN: 9781408880067
Produktnummer: 21115621
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.6 cm 180 g
Gewicht: 180

Über den Autor

M.F.K. Fisher is credited with inventing American food writing and was one of its preeminent figures of the twentieth century. Following her acclaimed debut, Serve It Forth, her classic, Consider the Oyster, was published in 1941. She went on to publish over twenty-five books celebrating and interrogating food, love, and the sensuous life. M.F.K. Fisher's body of work encompasses essay collections, short stories, memoirs, journals and one other novel, Not Now But Now. Born in Michigan in 1908, she spent three formative years in France before settling in California. She died in 1992.mfkfisher.com/