Consumed

Author:   David Cronenberg
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
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9780007552245


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 September 2014
Format:   Paperback
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The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and tech-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors. Nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, they encounter each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi is drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, has disappeared. Her interest aroused, Naomi sets off in search of the truth about the disturbing mystery. Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the work of a controversial surgeon. But after sleeping with one of his subjects, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's. Determined to meet the doctor who identified the disease, Nathan comes across Roiphe's daughter, a young woman whose bizarre behaviour masks a devastating secret. These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. “Consumed” is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world's leading film directors.

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Author:   David Cronenberg
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   Fourth Estate Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780007552245


ISBN 10:   0007552246
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 September 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Praise for David Cronenberg: 'Few directors have ploughed such distinctive furrows as Cronenberg. And now in his fourth decade of film-making, he is still at the cutting edge.' 'The World's 40 Best Directors', The Guardian, 'An intellectual with ominous powers.' The New York Times 'The most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world' The Village Voice 'Horror's smartest/scariest auteur.' 'Greatest Directors Ever' Total Film


'CONSUMED is an eye-opening dazzler. Not for the fainthearted, but for those of us who relish a trip into the shadowy depths, a must-read. Cronenberg's novel is as troubling, sinister, and as enthralling as his films' Stephen King 'Classic Cronenberg! Who else can tell such a frightening, thrilling, shocking story about the nexus of the spirit and the flesh? CONSUMED will, well, consume you' J. J. Abrams 'Like a mashup of William Gibson, the king of near-future SF cool, and 1970s horror maestro James Herbert ... an intense and surreal modern vision of the thousand unnatural shocks that flesh is heir to' Guardian '[CONSUMED] involves cannibalism, perversity and philosophy, as though Jean-Paul Sartre were dining with Hannibal Lecter ... It is compelling in its scabrous transgression, daring in its tackling of taboos such as geriatric sex ... You've got to hand it to Cronenberg - at 71 he has written a first novel as provocative and neo-adolescent as they come' The Times 'An astonishing, seamless continuation of what I call his peerless novelistic film oeuvres. With CONSUMED, he has become the definitive heir, not just of Kafka and Borges, but of Cronenberg himself' Bruce Wagner 'Delicious, and ... no end of wicked fun' Independent 'Cronenberg's first novel is so good, he should ditch his day job ... There is more than enough body horror in CONSUMED to satisfy fans of Cronenberg's The Fly or Videodrome but at its core is a nuanced and moving examination of what it means to age, to become ill and to die in a rampantly technologised age. CONSUMED may not be to everyone's taste but, for connoisseurs of Burroughs, Ballard and DeLillo, it's a delightful and unexpected smorgasbord' New Statesman


'CONSUMED is an eye-opening dazzler. Not for the fainthearted, but for those of us who relish a trip into the shadowy depths, a must-read. Cronenberg's novel is as troubling, sinister, and as enthralling as his films' Stephen King 'Classic Cronenberg! Who else can tell such a frightening, thrilling, shocking story about the nexus of the spirit and the flesh? CONSUMED will, well, consume you' J. J. Abrams 'Like a mashup of William Gibson, the king of near-future SF cool, and 1970s horror maestro James Herbert ... an intense and surreal modern vision of the thousand unnatural shocks that flesh is heir to' Guardian '[CONSUMED] involves cannibalism, perversity and philosophy, as though Jean-Paul Sartre were dining with Hannibal Lecter ... It is compelling in its scabrous transgression, daring in its tackling of taboos such as geriatric sex ... You've got to hand it to Cronenberg - at 71 he has written a first novel as provocative and neo-adolescent as they come' The Times 'An astonishing, seamless continuation of what I call his peerless novelistic film oeuvres. With CONSUMED, he has become the definitive heir, not just of Kafka and Borges, but of Cronenberg himself' Bruce Wagner 'Delicious, and ... no end of wicked fun' Independent 'Cronenberg's first novel is so good, he should ditch his day job ... There is more than enough body horror in CONSUMED to satisfy fans of Cronenberg's The Fly or Videodrome but at its core is a nuanced and moving examination of what it means to age, to become ill and to die in a rampantly technologised age. CONSUMED may not be to everyone's taste but, for connoisseurs of Burroughs, Ballard and DeLillo, it's a delightful and unexpected smorgasbord' New Statesman 'Aficionados of Croneberg's cinematic work will not be surprised to find a lot of exquisitely detailed, voyeuristic body-horror' Guardian


Author Information

David Cronenberg lives in Canada. His body of work as a film director – Shivers, Rabid, Fast Company, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, eXistenz, The Dead Zone, M. Butterfly, Spider, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises – has received tremendous critical praise and numerous awards. He is an Officer in France's Order of Arts and Letters and an Officer in the Order of Canada. In 1999, he was President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

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