As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
by Maria McCann
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Author: Maria McCannEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-07
ISBN: 015601226X
Number of pages: 584
Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Reviews of As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
Book Review: Gritty and garish, tough and tender, romantic and real
Summary: 5 Stars
Maria McCann has a winner with her epic debut novel. Very few writers can capture the feel and sound of another age as she does. The dialogue and situations always feel right for Cromwell's England. The story is appropriately harsh at times, as befits a country in civil war and a society of feudal servitude.
Jacob Cullen is dark, muscular, and handsome, with a yen to master his surroundings. Coupled with his jealous rage, he has a problem and conflict in his life. He meets Ferris in Cromwell's army and, not realizing it at first, falls in love. He hopes, and needs, that this newcomer in his life will help him be the 'good' man he says he wants to be, and relieve him of the guilt he feels for former actions.
Theirs is a bumpy flight, but with moments of great poetry and passion. Jacob is not exactly likeable, but he is powerful, real, and erotic. And we want him to succeed. This is not a meagre achievement for any writer presenting such a conflicted character. One hopes for a happy ending for our questionable hero.
Kudos to Ms. McCann for a stunning gift which holds our interest from first word to last, in a big, potent, and human novel of true love and tragedy.
Summary of As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror. Jacob Cullen and his fellow soldiers dream of rebuilding their lives when the fighting is over. But the shattering events of war will overtake them.
A darkly erotic tale of passion and obsession, As Meat Loves Salt is a gripping portrait of England beset by war. It is also a moving portrait of a man on the brink of madness. Hailed as a masterpiece, this is a first novel by a most original new voice in fiction.
A Harvest Original
A darkly erotic tale of passion and obsession, As Meat Loves Salt is a gripping portrait of England beset by war. It is also a moving portrait of a man on the brink of madness. Hailed as a masterpiece, this is a first novel by a most original new voice in fiction.
A Harvest Original
With her first book, As Meat Loves Salt, Maria McCann joins a small, esteemed company of writers--Umberto Eco and Gore Vidal among them--whose historical novels are meticulously researched, politically acute, and rattling good reads. Set in the 17th century, during the English civil war, As Meat Loves Salt follows the misadventures of Jacob, born a gentleman but raised a servant, whose overdeveloped sense of personal dignity leads him from one crisis to another. When the book opens, he is already a murderer. Within a hundred pages he becomes a rapist and a thief. All this is perfect training for a military career, and Jacob soon finds himself in Cromwell's New Model army and in thrall to a charismatic man named Ferris. "It was all pre-ordained," says Jacob later, when the men have deserted together, "there had never been a place where I could have leapt free of the net." Rich with period detail, multilayered, and erotic, this is a big, delicious novel with a hint of crunchy intellection. Expect a lost weekend. --Regina Marler
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