{"product_id":"consumed-9781416596141","title":"Consumed","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An eye-opening dazzler\" (Stephen King) about a pair of globetrotting, gore-obsessed journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding a famous couple, C?lestine and Aristide, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. C?lestine has been found dead, and Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. Yet Naomi sets off to find him, and as she delves deeper into the couple's lives, she discovers the news story may only skim the surface of the disturbing acts they performed together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJournalist Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zolt?n Moln?r, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Moln?r's patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe's and travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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. \u003ci\u003eConsumed\u003c\/i\u003e is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world's leading film directors, a writer of \"fierce sculptural intensity\" (Jonathan Lethem, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) who makes it \"impossible to look away\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCronenberg, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - David Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker whose career has spanned more than four decades. Born in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg was inducted onto Canada's Walk of Fame in 1999. In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2006 he was awarded the Cannes Film Festival's lifetime achievement award, the Carrosse d'Or; he is also an Officer in France's Order of Arts and Letters (1990), and a Chevalier in its Legion of Honor (2009). Cronenberg's many feature films include \u003ci\u003eStereo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrimes of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM. Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA History of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dangerous Method\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Cosmopolis \u003c\/i\u003e(an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel). His most recent film, \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Stars, \u003c\/i\u003e starring Julianne Moore, Joan Cusack, and Robert Pattinson, opened at the New York Film Festival in Fall 2014.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649955893522,"sku":"9781416596141","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67ab1fd2-286f-49b8-976d-fc9c49b99f7d.jpg?v=1733278653","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/consumed-9781416596141","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}