Consumed
By: David Cronenberg
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780670069002
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Journalists; Fiction; Philosophers; Death; Conspiracy
Description: In the book-filled, artfully messy Paris apartment of the famous French intellectuals Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, an astonishing discovery is made, the grisly, butchered remains of Celestine, partially eaten. Her husband, sought by police for questioning, is nowhere to be found. Naomi Seberg, a young journalist, embarks upon a quest to uncover the truth of Celestine's death and Aristide's role in it. She travels to Tokyo to interview the suspected cannibal, while her boyfriend, Nathan Math, a medical journalist, seduces the cancer patient of a controversial Hungarian doctor and contracts a sexually transmitted disease. He traces the famous discoverer of the diseases to Forest Hill Village in Toronto, where he encounters the most interesting journalistic subject of all.
Notes: Issued also as an electronic format.