A Taste of Life
by Sara Paretsky
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A classic short story of love, revenge, and appetite from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky.Daphne Raydor has an insatiable appetite. Overweight as she is, she always assumed she would never know love. But meeting Jerry changes everything. Her appetite decreases. Her self-worth skyrockets. Then her mother comes to visit. And everything changes again. But Daphne refuses to go back to her old life, and now her appetite is for revenge...
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Published by Penguin for their 60th anniversary,these three short stories have not previously appeared in any of Sara Paretsky's other collections.
The first and best of these is 'A Taste of Life'. It tells of a compulsive eater who eventually consumes something that she really shouldn't have. Crime or horror? You decide.
The second and longest tale is a Raymond Chandler take-off called 'Dealer's Choice',which had moments of the original.
The third,'The Man Who Loved Life', seemed to be a form of social morality tale rather than a story pure and simple and as I dislike being preached at in works of fiction it was just not for me at all.
The first and best of these is 'A Taste of Life'. It tells of a compulsive eater who eventually consumes something that she really shouldn't have. Crime or horror? You decide.
The second and longest tale is a Raymond Chandler take-off called 'Dealer's Choice',which had moments of the original.
The third,'The Man Who Loved Life', seemed to be a form of social morality tale rather than a story pure and simple and as I dislike being preached at in works of fiction it was just not for me at all.
Originally bought this in Oxford years and years ago. Turns out I don’t care for the gruesome and hard stories on rereading. They are very effective, but I don’t have the spoons for them right now.
A quick read which kept me entertained over a coupla cuppas.
A Taste of Life - sad and slightly disturbing.
The Dealer - enjoyable enough.
The Man Who Loved Life - ok, but a tad predictable.
A Taste of Life - sad and slightly disturbing.
The Dealer - enjoyable enough.
The Man Who Loved Life - ok, but a tad predictable.
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Author Sara Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa on June 8, 1947. She received a degree in political science from the University of Kansas and ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War." She also earned an MBA from the show more University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She married a professor of physics (University of Chicago). The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. V. I. Warshawsky shows a female detective succeeding a traditionally male role. Paretsky has won numerous awards for her work including the Silver Dagger Award for Toxic Shock, the Gold Dagger award for Blacklist, and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers Association. Her title Brush Back made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Taste of Life
- Alternate titles
- A taste of life and other stories
- People/Characters
- Daphne Raydor; Sylvia Raydor
- First words
- Daphne Raydor worked in the bookkeeping department at Rapelec, Inc.
- Disambiguation notice
- A Taste of Life
Dealer's Choice
The Man Who Loved Life
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