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Consumed (Paperback)
David Cronenberg
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Franz Kafka s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish
transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century
later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It
is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one
morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This
hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge
Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle
millions of readers. In her new translation of Kafka s masterpiece,
Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity
in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa s
grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his
longstanding spiritual impoverishment."
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Consumed (Paperback)
David Cronenberg
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R256
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The debut novel by the iconic film director. Stylish and
camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors -
nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the
social media age, encountering each other only in airport hotels
and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines
surrounding Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers
and sexual libertines. Celestine has been found dead and mutilated
in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, has
disappeared. Naomi sets off in pursuit, but the secrets she
discovers are as seductive as they are disturbing. Nathan,
meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of
an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltan Molnar. After sleeping with one
of Molnar's patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's.
Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who
identified the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now
studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behaviour masks a
devastating secret. These parallel narratives become entwined in a
gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing,
North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an
incredible number of varieties, sex. 'Consumed' is an exhilarating,
provocative debut novel from one of the world's leading film
directors.
Cronenberg on Cronenberg charts Cronenberg's development from maker of inexpensive 'exploitation' cinema to internationally renowned director of million-dollar movies, and reveals the concerns and obsessions which continue to dominate his increasingly rich and complex work. This edition brings Cronenberg's work up-to-date with an additional chapter on Crash.
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The Brood (Blu-ray disc)
Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Art Hindle, Cindy Hinds, Nuala Fitzgerald, …
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Cult horror directed by David Cronenberg. Frank Carveth (Art
Hindle)'s wife Nola (Samantha Eggar) is being treated at an
institute run by the eccentric psychologist Dr Raglan (Oliver
Reed), who is known for using bizarre techniques to break down
defensive barriers in the psyche of his patients. After Nola's
parents are brutally killed and his daughter returns from a visit
to her mother covered in bruises, Frank comes to suspect that his
wife and Raglan are up to no good. What he discovers is stranger
still: a group of cloned midgets, apparently spurred on by Nora's
psychopathic rages, are responsible for the attacks. Since no one
else will believe him, it is up to Frank to try and put an end to
the violence...
If you love entertainment that makes you laugh out loud while
highlighting the absurdity in issues that are actually pretty
serious, then you'll be a big fan of this illustrated satirical
fiction that is a poignant illustrated story about an aging woman's
life as she reflects on passing her years in anonymity. 'Doris? You
asked me who was Doris?' And then I remembered. 'Doris was the
woman who worked one of our cash registers at FoodWorld, forever
and maybe even longer. But nobody knew a thing about her, or even
wanted to because she was plain as a post, always kept to herself,
with buttoned lip saying nothing. And then we guessed one day she
must be dead because for a whole week she wasn't there at the Cash.
Till we heard rumor she'd left behind her house to someone she'd
never known, who'd found in the house this journal full of crazy
stories Doris had written, and piles and piles of drawings and
paintings so fantastic you'd never believe anyone could see herself
like that. The secret life of Doris Melnick! The woman not one of
us knew though she'd been there all that time. So what does that
mean, I wonder?' - Statement by Alice Geerson, FoodWorld clerk
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