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OverviewA modern-day take on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, veteran filmmaker Ruth Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break, a chance to travel through the United States to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by an American meat-exporting business. But along the way, she discovers some unsavory truths about love, honor, and a particularly damaging hormone called DES that wreaks havoc with her uterus. Meanwhile, Akiko, a painfully thin Japanese woman struggling with bulimia, is being pressured by her child-craving husband to put some meat on her bones, literally. How Jane's and Akiko's lives intersect in wacky cross-cultural collisions provides romance, humor, intrigue, and even a muckraking message about questionable meat and the homogenization of America. This is the perfect fiction companion to The Omnivore's Dilemmaand In Defense of Food. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth L. Ozeki , Anna FieldsPublisher: Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S. Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S. Edition: Library Edition Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 17.10cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780786191833ISBN 10: 078619183 Publication Date: 01 July 2003 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsA stunning combination of outstanding writing and performance...Anna Fields flawlessly embodies all of the extreme characters in this work. Fields is a wonder as she flows from Japanese to various American accents and Japanese-inflected American. Her tour de force delivery of this feminist satire provides a refreshing dose of comedy to serious issues-meat, sex, and cultural pressure. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile The characters, major, minor and incidental, are all well written and beautifully portrayed by actress Anna Fields...She never loses a single character, and when people reappear after a long hiatus in the story, they are immediately recognizable in the voice of this actress. She gets the laughs in the text, as well as the heartache. -- Audiobookstoday.com Romance, agribusiness, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding-it takes talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these ingredient beautifully together...[in a] sensitive and compelling portrait. -- Arthur Golden, New York Times bestselling author Successfully transmits what it truly feels like to be 'other'-in this case, that sense of otherness can stem from being female, Asian, not knowing how to properly cook, or just generally misunderstood...Equal parts haunting and utterly hilarious, this was a laugh-cry book through and through. -- Entertainment Weekly There is an ardent passion to the center of this novel...rare and provocative. -- USA Today A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel...delicious...up-to-the minute. -- Chicago Tribune Ozeki skillfully tackles hard-pressing issues such as the use and effects of hormones in the beef industry and topics such as cultural differences, gender roles, and sexual exploitation. Her work is unique in presentation yet moving and entertaining. -- Library Journal Ozeki skillfully tackles hard-pressing issues such as the use and effects of hormones in the beef industry and topics such as cultural differences, gender roles, and sexual exploitation. Her work is unique in presentation yet moving and entertaining. -- Library Journal A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel...delicious...up-to-the minute. -- Chicago Tribune There is an ardent passion to the center of this novel...rare and provocative. -- USA Today Successfully transmits what it truly feels like to be 'other'-in this case, that sense of otherness can stem from being female, Asian, not knowing how to properly cook, or just generally misunderstood...Equal parts haunting and utterly hilarious, this was a laugh-cry book through and through. -- Entertainment Weekly Romance, agribusiness, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding-it takes talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these ingredient beautifully together...[in a] sensitive and compelling portrait. -- Arthur Golden, New York Times bestselling author The characters, major, minor and incidental, are all well written and beautifully portrayed by actress Anna Fields...She never loses a single character, and when people reappear after a long hiatus in the story, they are immediately recognizable in the voice of this actress. She gets the laughs in the text, as well as the heartache. -- Audiobookstoday.com A stunning combination of outstanding writing and performance...Anna Fields flawlessly embodies all of the extreme characters in this work. Fields is a wonder as she flows from Japanese to various American accents and Japanese-inflected American. Her tour de force delivery of this feminist satire provides a refreshing dose of comedy to serious issues-meat, sex, and cultural pressure. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Author InformationRuth Ozeki is a filmmaker and novelist who has won major awards in both fields. Her first novel, My Year of Meats, won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes & Noble American Book Award, and a Special Jury Prize of the World Cookbook Awards in Versailles. All Over Creation was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the American Book Award, as well as the 2004 WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her award-winning novels have been described as witty, intelligent, and passionate by the Independent, and as possessing shrewd and playful humor, luscious sexiness, and kinetic pizzazz by the Chicago Tribune. She began her media career as an art director in film, switched to directing television documentaries, and then began making her own films, of which Body of Correspondence won the New Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. A frequent speaker on college and university campuses, she serves on the advisory editorial board of the Asian American Literary Review. Anna Fields (1965-2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |