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A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Poetry
Presents pieces of prose and poetry that engage literature with art.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Eating Animals is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before. Informative, rational, convincing and entertai ...Show more
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Philosophy and Religion
I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began a ...Show more
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Non-Fiction
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carniv ...Show more
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Philosophy and Religion
EATING ANIMALS Is a uniquely passionate, powerful and provocative exploration of what we eat, and why, by the bestselling author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This story didn't begin as a book. I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Whe ...Show more
Eating Animals (US edition) by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Culture
Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of bei ...Show more
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Fiction
"Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened -- seared in the fire of something new." -- Washington Post With only a yellowing photo ...Show more
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Romance
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforge ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is search ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Category: Fiction
'An astonishing feat' - "The Times". A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle En ...Show more