Loading

author: Gerard Woodward

2010-09-03

Pan Macmillan

Nourishment

AED 130
Easy Payment Plan
Easy Payment Plans
EPP available for order over AED 1,000
i
Same-day to 2-day delivery
Check availability in store
With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother. As Tory works at the local gelatine factory – doing her bit for the war effort – her mother has established herself as matriarch and together they are doing as well as could be expected in difficult times.

Tory’s quiet life is thrown into turmoil, however, when her husband Donald, now a prisoner of war, makes an outrageous demand for sexual gratification. He wants a dirty letter, by return of post! Horrified, at first, that Donald is being turned into some sort of monster by the Nazis, Tory’s disgust gradually gives way to a sense of marital duty, and taking in the libraries, bookshops, public conveniences and barbers’ shops of South-East London, she begins a quest to master the language of carnal desire: a quest that takes a sudden and unexpected turn into far more dangerous territory.

Beginning with an act of unintentional cannibalism, and flirting with a scheme to end world hunger by the use of protein pills, Nourishment ranges widely across the Continent and yet always returns home: to family, to people, to relationships. Woodward offers a prescient examination of the ways in which we both nurture and consume each other in the face of adversity.
View full description
Loyalty dots logo
Earn 130 loyalty dots when you sign-in and order
AED 130
Easy Payment Plan
Easy Payment Plans
EPP available for order over AED 1,000
i
With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother. As Tory works at the local gelatine factory – doing her bit for the war effort – her mother has established herself as matriarch and together they are doing as well as could be expected in difficult times.

Tory’s quiet life is thrown into turmoil, however, when her husband Donald, now a prisoner of war, makes an outrageous demand for sexual gratification. He wants a dirty letter, by return of post! Horrified, at first, that Donald is being turned into some sort of monster by the Nazis, Tory’s disgust gradually gives way to a sense of marital duty, and taking in the libraries, bookshops, public conveniences and barbers’ shops of South-East London, she begins a quest to master the language of carnal desire: a quest that takes a sudden and unexpected turn into far more dangerous territory.

Beginning with an act of unintentional cannibalism, and flirting with a scheme to end world hunger by the use of protein pills, Nourishment ranges widely across the Continent and yet always returns home: to family, to people, to relationships. Woodward offers a prescient examination of the ways in which we both nurture and consume each other in the face of adversity.
View full description
View less description

publisher

Pan Macmillan

Specifications

Books

Number of Pages
352
Publication Date
2010-09-03
View more specifications
View less specifications
Customers