
Swallow
Mary Cappello
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Product Details
Publisher | New Press |
Publish Date | May 01, 2012 |
Pages | 304 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781595587770 |
Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
--The Washington Post
"Cappello ... brings a psychoanalytic richness to her understanding of ingestion and dentition."
--The Guardian
"[Cappello] packs her story with surprising imagery and extravagant lyricism, taking a highly literary approach on the subject."
--Salon
"One odd, and oddly haunting, book."
--Macleans
"Swallow is a surprising and original work. It is biography on the slant, a meditation that transcends boundaries and genres, written with scholarship, humor, and panache. I urge you to take this journey."
--Ricky Jay
"[Cappello's] writing style is wistful, wacky, and wise. . . . Swallow is a strange and alluring work of musings and medical history. . . . Occupying a curious position between Ripley's Believe It or Not and riveting biography, this book is something special."
--Tony Miksanek, MD, JAMA
"A wonderful and bizarre book: gorge yourself on it, and gulp."
--Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic
"Cappello's fine writing creates a book that goes down very easy."
--Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review
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