num_pages: 256
description: Speaking of this 1957 novel, the author has said it ended his obsession with the reconstruction of the immediate past and moved him into the contemporary scene. The narrator, Earl Horter, is a lyric writer who is in Hollywood with Mac, his partner, to write a musical. With two girls they have picked up and gone to Acapulco.
language: English
title: Love Among the Cannibals
titlecomplete: Love Among the Cannibals
genres: Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 67
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: University of Nebraska Press