Book of the Week: THE GLUTTON by A.K. Blakemore
A novel of desire and destruction, The Glutton is worth every mouthful. Here is the story of The Great Tarare, a man who could never satisfy his appetite, made famous in revolutionary France by his horrific ability to eat anything! Golden forks, raw offal, live animals and worse. A marvel, a freak, unwanted and jeered, but a source of endless fascination to the peasants who ‘feed’ him with the abject and to the medical profession who poke and prod to unpick his mystery.