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Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat & Obsession
(Audio CD / Audio, Unabridged edition)
Read by Powell, Julie
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After having cooked her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in Julie and Julia, what would Julie Powell do next? Learn to be a butcher. In Cleaving she sets about this in fabulously funny and often grisly detail. She trains at Fleischer's, a butcher shop... where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs - tough, physical work - and how to get on with her extraordinary new colleagues. As she does so, she exposes with her butcher's knife the other side to her life, for Julie peels back the skin to reveal that she is in the throes of an insane, irresistible love affair that threatens to devastate her marriage. In this riveting memoir of love, marriage and meat, a voyage into the world of butchery becomes a metaphor for learning to stand on one's own two feet.
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| ISBN |
9781742336671 |
| Published NZ |
1 Jan 2010 |
| Publisher |
Bolinda Publishing |
| Format |
Audio CD/Audio, Unabridged edition |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Smart and compelling...Powell's steadfast femininity and confident voice are refreshing. -- The San Francisco Chronicle [A]n engaging writer. Fast, funny and observant...she's your mean best friend sending instant messages that make you snort at your desk. -- The New York Times Book Review Since her year spent cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, recounted in Julie & Julia, Julie Powell's mind has turned to meat. Cleaving follows Powell as she learns to butcher, and the process is inspired by, and dovetails with, a personal story - this time of her overcoming an affair that threatens her marriage. Pleasures of the flesh, indeed. -- Vogue Powell's hectic, confiding style is the literary equivalent of a girly evening of dirty gossip over a bottle or five of Sauvignon blanc . . . her narrative is vivid, well-structured, intense and moving. -- The Daily Mail Ms. Powell is a wonderful prose writer. -- The Wall Street Journal Highly readable . . . beautiful writing, effortlessly filling pages with virtuoso descriptions of animal slaughter and human travail. -- The Sunday Times |
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Author's Bio
After a misspent youth involving dead-end jobs and questionable decisions, Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, has found her calling as a writer-cum-butcher. She lives in Long Island City, Queens, when she isn't in Kingston, New York, cutting up animals. After a misspent youth involving dead-end jobs and questionable decisions, Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, has found her calling as a writer-cum-butcher. She lives in Long Island City, Queens, when she isn't in Kingston, New York, cutting up animals.
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