- Published: 27 October 2011
- ISBN: 9780141924021
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Cleaving
- Published: 27 October 2011
- ISBN: 9780141924021
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Since her year spent cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, recounted in Julie & Julia, Julie Powell's mind has turned to meat. Cleaving follows Powell as she learns to butcher, and the process is inspired by, and dovetails with, a personal story - this time of her overcoming an affair that threatens her marriage. Pleasures of the flesh, indeed
Vogue
Powell's hectic, confiding style is the literary equivalent of a girly evening of dirty gossip over a bottle or five of Sauvignon blanc...her narrative is vivid, well-structured, intense and moving
Daily Mail
A remarkable confessional of butchery and adultery
Harper’s Bazaar
Highly readable . . . beautiful writing, effortlessly filling pages with virtuoso descriptions of animal slaughter and human travail
Sunday Times