Eating Mammals

In the tradition of T. C. Boyle <br />Steven Millhauser and Michel Faber -- with a penchant for<br />the macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes <em>Eating Mammals</em>.</p> <p>Gypsies businessmen servants masters and unwise children come together in three mythical tales from Victorian England. <em>Eating Mammals</em> evokes a lost time and place in which the realm of the magical seems almost too possible: a winged cat wreaks havoc in a Yorkshire workhouse and then in the minds of a succession of owners; a famed stunt eater introduces his apprentice Captain Gusto to the delicate art of devouring anything for a living; a blooming romance between two meat-pie makers leads thirty-two adorned donkeys to the altar. Wholly original and as assured as folklore <em>Eating Mammals</em> marks the arrival of a very distinctive new voice.</p>