by Linda Jaivin
With its layering of stories within stories, Eat Me is as provocative in structure as it is potent in detail. Is it a literary romp? A work of pornography? A devastating social satire? One thing is clear: This outrageous, irresistible, and utterly original debut is the juiciest book you will read this year.
LINDA JAIVIN is a freelance writer and translator. Her journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Australian Rolling Stone and Australian New Woman. Raised in New London, Connecticut, and educated at Brown University, she worked and studied in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China before settling permanently in Sydney, Australia.
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First published by The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, Australia, 1995.
FIRST EDITION
Book design by Terry Karydes
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Jaivin, Linda.
Eat me / Linda Jaivin.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-553-06697-8 (hc)
I.Title. PR9619.3.J247E28 1997
823—dc21 96-47517
CIP
97 98 99 00 01 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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