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The Glutton: A Novel Audiobook
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**Named a MOST ANTICIPATED book of 2023 by The Guardian**
From the prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-consuming appetite.
1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it’s killing him from the inside. But that’s not all—he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite…an appetite they say tortures him still.
Born in an impoverished village to a widowed young mother, Tarare was once overflowing with quiet affection: for the Baby Jesus and the many Saints, for his mother, for the plants and little creatures in the woods and fields around their house. He spends his days alone, observing the delicate charms of the countryside. But his world is not a gentle one—and soon, life as he knew it is violently upended. Tarare is pitched down a chaotic path through revolutionary France, left to the mercy of strangers, and increasingly, bottomlessly, ravenous.
This exhilarating, disquieting novel paints a richly imagined life for The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon in 18th-century France: a world of desire, hunger and poverty; hope, chaos and survival. As in her cult hit The Manningtree Witches, Blakemore showcases her stunning lyricism and deep compassion for characters pushed to the edge of society in The Glutton, her most unputdownable work yet.
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“Graham Halstead meets the complex narration challenge posed by this audiobook. His performance provides the perfect mix of empathy and horror…His voice captures the beauty and heartbreak in the story’s grotesque events. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“A grisly and utterly gripping picaresque following the life of Tarare…just as immersive and vividly realized as any work of science fiction or fantasy—and a lot more gory.”
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“Atmospherically charged and written in eloquent and compassionate prose, this is a lusty feast.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About A. K. Blakemore
A. K. Blakemore is the author of The Manningtree Witches, which won the 2021 Desmond Elliot Prize. She has also written two collections of poetry and translated the work of Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo. Her poetry and prose writing have been widely published and anthologized, appearing in The London Review of Books, Poetry, and The Poetry Review, among other publications.
About Graham Halstead
Graham Halstead, an Earphones Award and Audie Award–winning narrator, is a professionally trained actor and voice artist. As an actor, he has worked internationally in Edinburgh and London, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His youthful, easy-flowing voice can be heard on television and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra.