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| #839529 in Books | 2003-11-06 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.06 x.63 x7.28l,.58 | File type: PDF | 128 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A bit unfocused but highly interesting.|By C. D. Varn|Francine Prose's Gluttony looks focuses on how the title sin feels both like particularly idiosyncratic anachronism or incredibly relevant. Prose's primary concern is the tension between the way gluttony is viewed and morphed: half-admired secretly, half seen as the primary gateway to other sins, Prose traces the idea from|From Publishers Weekly|Originally a lecture in the New York Public Library's Seven Deadly Sins series, this erudite little meditation on appetite and religion matches ancient and medieval texts (Petronius, St. John Chrysostom) with up-to-date references to stoma
In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas a...
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