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Maria McCann

Author of As Meat Loves Salt

3+ Works 1,307 Members 78 Reviews 8 Favorited

About the Author

Maria McCann was born in Liverpool in 1956. Since 1985 she has been a lecturer in English at Somerset College

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Works by Maria McCann

As Meat Loves Salt (2001) 1,043 copies
The Wilding (2010) 199 copies
Ace, King, Knave (2013) 65 copies

Associated Works

Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future (2013) — Contributor — 34 copies
Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods (2011) — Contributor — 22 copies

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Birthdate
1956
Gender
female
Nationality
UK
Places of residence
UK
Occupations
Lecturer in English

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Reviews

I was going to give this a long review but like... I just can't care anymore.

Good if you're looking for a very well written, beautifully constructed, minutely researched bury your gays. Yeah, I'm miffed. Fuck this book. It had everything going for it to be my favorite book of the year, and having a completely unnecessary and shoddy relationship split after spending 500 pages with a couple is............ disappointing.

Gay lit deserves better. Still a fucking amazing book, but we deserve better.
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Eavans | 48 other reviews | Feb 17, 2023 |
Excellent character study of a morally disturbed man. Being in Jacob’s mind was a fascinating experience, if not exactly a pleasant one (because of his religious guilt). He was a very peculiar MC, ‘savage’ in both anger and love, impulsive and prone to obsession. I’m still not sure if he suffered from a mental disorder or if his ‘Voice’ was just the manifestation of his fear and shame… Definitely not a ‘good’ man, however you look at it, but his story still broke my heart.

The writing here was just stunning, very descriptive, and even if it was a little overlong in places after the 50% mark (mostly the colony-related bits), I skipped nothing. I give credit where credit’s due, and this debut deserves the highest rating.… (more)
 
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claudiereads | 48 other reviews | Nov 25, 2022 |
Dropped at 76 pages. This no doubt an excellent book but just not for me. I had a hard time with the archaic language (it reads very historically accurate and just didn't process well in my head) and thus difficulty following the narrative. If it was maybe 200 pages not 500 I'd have stuck with it but that's too much for this humble reader.
 
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brittaniethekid | 48 other reviews | Jul 7, 2022 |
I chose this as my past couple of reads had made me feel a bit anxious but I thought this fairly light, despite being longlisted for the Orange prize. interesting enough about the cider makers in 17th century Britain, but read a bit like a Catherine Cookson novel to me.
½
 
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