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The Cook : A Novel by Maylis de Kerangal (2019, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
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- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780374120900
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374120900
ISBN-13
9780374120900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038293447
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cook : a Novel
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Coming of Age, Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-044068
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus, "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly, "A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" -- Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review "Brief but superb . . . An antidote to the bravado of kitchen confidentials and to the rise of celebrity chefs, the book is restrained, private, and careful." -- The New Yorker "This short book, beautifully translated by Sam Taylor, reads like a prose poem . . . de Kerangal's food writing is incantatory; the accumulation of minutiae hypnotic . . . I was left hungry for more." -- Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal "Narrated with almost documentary-like precision . . . this portrait of self-taught chef Mauro is not just a beautifully delineated character study or inside look at a hard way to make a living but a perceptive meditation on the meaning of work itself . . . All this in just over 100 pages and done brilliantly. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Inventive, delicate, unpretentious . . . As the artist emerges, The Cook intrigues, entices, and ultimately satisfies." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "Kerangal's concise tale is as engaging for the relatable ordinariness of its characters and events as for its tracking of a chef's professional development. The sparse prose increases the impact of carefully chosen details, and the translation retains the power of the compact novel's original French. Kerangal proves that the best reads can come in small packages." -- Stacey Hayman, Booklist "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly, "Narrated with almost documentary-like precision . . . this portrait of self-taught chef Mauro is not just a beautifully delineated character study or inside look at a hard way to make a living but a perceptive meditation on the meaning of work itself . . . All this in just over 100 pages and done brilliantly. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Inventive, delicate, unpretentious . . . As the artist emerges, The Cook intrigues, entices, and ultimately satisfies." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "Kerangal's concise tale is as engaging for the relatable ordinariness of its characters and events as for its tracking of a chef's professional development. The sparse prose increases the impact of carefully chosen details, and the translation retains the power of the compact novel's original French. Kerangal proves that the best reads can come in small packages." -- Stacey Hayman, Booklist "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly, "Inventive, delicate, unpretentious . . . As the artist emerges, The Cook intrigues, entices, and ultimately satisfies." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "Kerangal's concise tale is as engaging for the relatable ordinariness of its characters and events as for its tracking of a chef's professional development. The sparse prose increases the impact of carefully chosen details, and the translation retains the power of the compact novel's original French. Kerangal proves that the best reads can come in small packages." -- Stacey Hayman, Booklist "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly, "This short book, beautifully translated by Sam Taylor, reads like a prose poem . . . de Kerangal's food writing is incantatory; the accumulation of minutiae hypnotic . . . I was left hungry for more." -- Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal "Narrated with almost documentary-like precision . . . this portrait of self-taught chef Mauro is not just a beautifully delineated character study or inside look at a hard way to make a living but a perceptive meditation on the meaning of work itself . . . All this in just over 100 pages and done brilliantly. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Inventive, delicate, unpretentious . . . As the artist emerges, The Cook intrigues, entices, and ultimately satisfies." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "Kerangal's concise tale is as engaging for the relatable ordinariness of its characters and events as for its tracking of a chef's professional development. The sparse prose increases the impact of carefully chosen details, and the translation retains the power of the compact novel's original French. Kerangal proves that the best reads can come in small packages." -- Stacey Hayman, Booklist "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly, Praise for The Heart "[ The Heart ] is an unusual and often-ravishing novel . . . Ms. de Kerangal's long, rolling sentences pulse along in systolic thumps, each beat punctuated by a comma; they're packed with emotional intensity and florid imagery, and they've been superbly translated by Sam Taylor." -Jennifer Senior, The New York Times, "Inventive, delicate, unpretentious . . . As the artist emerges, The Cook intrigues, entices, and ultimately satisfies." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly, "Brief but superb . . . An antidote to the bravado of kitchen confidentials and to the rise of celebrity chefs, the book is restrained, private, and careful." -- The New Yorker "This short book, beautifully translated by Sam Taylor, reads like a prose poem . . . de Kerangal's food writing is incantatory; the accumulation of minutiae hypnotic . . . I was left hungry for more." -- Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal "Narrated with almost documentary-like precision . . . this portrait of self-taught chef Mauro is not just a beautifully delineated character study or inside look at a hard way to make a living but a perceptive meditation on the meaning of work itself . . . All this in just over 100 pages and done brilliantly. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Inventive, delicate, unpretentious . . . As the artist emerges, The Cook intrigues, entices, and ultimately satisfies." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC Culture "Kerangal's concise tale is as engaging for the relatable ordinariness of its characters and events as for its tracking of a chef's professional development. The sparse prose increases the impact of carefully chosen details, and the translation retains the power of the compact novel's original French. Kerangal proves that the best reads can come in small packages." -- Stacey Hayman, Booklist "[ The Cook ] encompasses more emotional and sensory detail [than The Heart ]; it's slim but potent . . . an admirable literary lagniappe." -- Kirkus "Fitfully delectable. . .[de Kerangal] takes readers on a brilliantly realized culinary tour of the world. . .[A] rich novel, particularly for armchair travelers."-- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
843.92
Synopsis
A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.' --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for March Maylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chef More like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic--to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends this simplistic form, however, through the lyricism and intensely vivid evocative nature of Maylis de Kerangal's prose, which conjures moods, sensations, and flavors, as well as the exhausting rigor and sometimes violent abuses of kitchen work. In The Cook , we follow Mauro as he finds his path in life: baking cakes as a child; cooking for his friends as a teenager; a series of studies, jobs, and travels; a failed love affair; a successful business; a virtual nervous breakdown; and--at the end--a rediscovery of his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life., "A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for March Maylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chef More like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic--to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends this simplistic form, however, through the lyricism and intensely vivid evocative nature of Maylis de Kerangal's prose, which conjures moods, sensations, and flavors, as well as the exhausting rigor and sometimes violent abuses of kitchen work. In The Cook , we follow Mauro as he finds his path in life: baking cakes as a child; cooking for his friends as a teenager; a series of studies, jobs, and travels; a failed love affair; a successful business; a virtual nervous breakdown; and--at the end--a rediscovery of his hunger for cooking, his appetite for life.
LC Classification Number
PQ2671.E64C4413 2019
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