NoFood
By: by Sarah Tolmie
Edition: First edition.
Series: Conversation pieces -- volume 40; Conversation pieces (Aqueduct Press) -- v. 40.
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781619760653
Subjects: Gastric bypass; Fiction; Cooks; Dérivation bilio-pancréatique; Romans, nouvelles; Cuisiniers
Other titles: No Food
Description: "For top chef Hardy Arar, his whole life is food. What is he to do when technology eliminates the need for it? TGB (total gastric bypass) is a giant leap forward for humans longing to transcend their flesh. It has fulfilled the desire of the rich to escape illness, boring sustenance routines, and disgusting bodily processes. But like all technological change, TGB unleashes a cascade of effects, social, political, and economic, effects drastically changing the lives of the characters in NoFood. For what is lost with the elimination of the drive to eat?"--Amazon blurb.
Notes: "First edition, August 2014"--Verso of title-page.