Devil's Larder

The Devil's Larder is a novel in sixty-four parts, exploring our deepest human concerns - love, hate, hopes and desires - through our relationship with food. Packed with delightful and subversive ingredients, with behaviour more suited to the bedroom than to the table, and with the most curious and idosyncratic of diners, this is a sensuous portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes. 'Delicious . . . the sheer quantity of inventiveness is astounding' Mail on Sunday 'Funny, frightening and erotic' The Times

"Even by Crace's standards, "The Devil's Larder is an extraordinary book." --"The New York Times Book Review "The breadth and range of [Crace's] inventiveness is astonishing." --"Chicago Tribune "The writing is serenely, Nabokovianly accomplished; the imaginative range deeply impressive." --"The Washington Post Book World "Crace creates in "The Devil's Larder an indelible sense of a living world, in which human culture is woven to its nonhuman surroundings through the strands of biological destiny and the texture of language itself." --"Boston Sunday Globe "Cruel, lovely, full of passion and decay....With "The Devil's Larder, Crace has created a work where prose passes into poetry and back into prose, literature as both particle and wave." --"The Seattle Times, "Even by Crace's standards, "The Devil's Larder "is an extraordinary book." --"The New York Times Book Review" "The breadth and range of [Crace's] inventiveness is astonishing." --"Chicago Tribune" "The writing is serenely, Nabokovianly accomplished; the imaginative range deeply impressive." --"The Washington Post Book World" "Crace creates in "The Devil's Larder" an indelible sense of a living world, in which human culture is woven to its nonhuman surroundings through the strands of biological destiny and the texture of language itself." --"Boston Sunday Globe" "Cruel, lovely, full of passion and decay....With "The Devil's Larder," Crace has created a work where prose passes into poetry and back into prose, literature as both particle and wave." --"The Seattle Times", " Even by Crace' s standards, "The Devil' s Larder "is an extraordinary book." -- "The New York Times Book Review" " The breadth and range of [Crace' s] inventiveness is astonishing." -- "Chicago Tribune" " The writing is serenely, Nabokovianly accomplished; the imaginative range deeply impressive." -- "The Washington Post Book World" " Crace creates in "The Devil' s Larder" an indelible sense of a living world, in which human culture is woven to its nonhuman surroundings through the strands of biological destiny and the texture of language itself." -- "Boston Sunday Globe" " Cruel, lovely, full of passion and decay....With "The Devil' s Larder," Crace has created a work where prose passes into poetry and back into prose, literature as both particle and wave." -- "The Seattle Times"

Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year; shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His novels have been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of ten books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.