Meat by Joseph D'Lacey | 427.11 KB
English | 343 Pages
Title: Meat
Author: Joseph D'Lacey
Year: 2008
Description:
- Eleven years after its original publication, this is the third edition of D'Lacey's cult hit, containing an introduction by Michael Wilson and a brand new foreword by the author. -
Abyrne, a strange town where the eating of meat has become a sacred obligation.
Richard Shanti is the town's legendary bolt-gunner – the most efficient slaughterhouse worker in living memory. The townsfolk adore him. In private, however, Shanti is a gentle man; a husband, and father to twin girls. Remorse over his murderous job weighs him down.
Provoked by the heretic, John Collins, Shanti begins to uncover the harrowing truth behind Abyrne's history. When the town's corporate and religious factions come into conflict, he must choose a side. By fighting for what he knows is right, Shanti will risk everything he believes in and everyone he loves.
Meanwhile, the townsfolk are hungry. The townsfolk must be fed.
Eleven years after its original publication, this is the third edition of D'Lacey's cult hit, containing an introduction by Michael Wilson and a brand new foreword by the author.
"Without reservation, MEAT is one of the most literate, astonishing, and intriguing books I've read in years." David Niall Wilson
"From the first paragraph I was hooked.Meat will stun you." Fatally Yours
"Meat is without question the most disturbing book I have ever read. Period." Speculative Fiction Junkie
Review
"Memorable and thoroughly satisfying." Black Static "Not for the weak of stomach - a book you won't forget in a hurry." Gorezone "From the first paragraph I was hooked - Meat will stun you." Fatally Yours "Engrossing and incredibly brutaa damned good horror story." Bloodtype Online "His name is Joseph D'Lacey, and he is seriously talented - horror at it's most horrific." The Big Green Bookshop --טקסט זה מתייחס למהדורת kindle_edition חלופית.
About the Author
Joseph D'Lacey is the author of The Kill Crew. --טקסט זה מתייחס למהדורת kindle_edition חלופית.
From the Author
Meat was my first published novenumber six of nine I've written so far. It was a disturbing and difficult book to write in ways I didn't anticipate.
I intended to write something bloody and unsettling. The process of slaughter was always going to form the central theme. I wanted the book to have authenticity and authority and that meant - for a change, in my case! - some research. I did it much of it online, viewing many hours of factory farming, animal transport and slaughter footage. Some of it was 'authorised', the better part of it was clandestine. I read articles on modern methods of relieving many kinds of animals of their flesh. How to keep them healthy until slaughter, how to slaughter them without ruining their flavour, how to slaughter them at high speed, how to minimise cost and maximise profit.
The taking and eating of flesh is a business on a scale no one likes to think about. In business, especially corporate business, making money comes before animal welfare. Anything approaching respect for animals is way, way down the list of priorities.
Suddenly, here was a new dilemma: was I writing a horror novel or was I making a point about the moral issues involved with farming animals for their flesh? I couldn't just ignore everything I'd discovered. Similarly, I didn't want to browbeat readers when I should have been entertaining them.
I tried to navigate a channel between my thoughts.
It didn't go well at the start. About a third of the way into the first draft, disgusted and repulsed by what I was creating, I stopped. I was having real problems holding the horror of it in my mind. It wasn't until I told Bloody Books about the project and they expressed serious interest that I started writing again - this time with the possibility of publication urging me on.
And so, MEAT was published in Feb '08 and people started reading it. 90% of the feedback I've received from the public and reviewers has been incredibly positive. Some people were merely entertained - the most important job of a fiction writer fulfilled. Some people were happily horrified. Some people gave up eating meat. And a few interpreted the novel as me preaching a vegetarian doctrinthose few didn't like it!
I hope you'll take something enduring away from the tale. I did: I'm now a vegetarian... --טקסט זה מתייחס למהדורת kindle_edition חלופית.
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- Eleven years after its original publication, this is the third edition of D'Lacey's cult hit, containing an introduction by Michael Wilson and a brand new foreword by the author. -
Abyrne, a strange town where the eating of meat has become a sacred obligation.
Richard Shanti is the town's legendary bolt-gunner – the most efficient slaughterhouse worker in living memory. The townsfolk adore him. In private, however, Shanti is a gentle man; a husband, and father to twin girls. Remorse over his murderous job weighs him down.
Provoked by the heretic, John Collins, Shanti begins to uncover the harrowing truth behind Abyrne's history. When the town's corporate and religious factions come into conflict, he must choose a side. By fighting for what he knows is right, Shanti will risk everything he believes in and everyone he loves.
Meanwhile, the townsfolk are hungry. The townsfolk must be fed.
Eleven years after its original publication, this is the third edition of D'Lacey's cult hit, containing an introduction by Michael Wilson and a brand new foreword by the author.
"Without reservation, MEAT is one of the most literate, astonishing, and intriguing books I've read in years." David Niall Wilson
"From the first paragraph I was hooked.Meat will stun you." Fatally Yours
"Meat is without question the most disturbing book I have ever read. Period." Speculative Fiction Junkie
Review
"Memorable and thoroughly satisfying." Black Static "Not for the weak of stomach - a book you won't forget in a hurry." Gorezone "From the first paragraph I was hooked - Meat will stun you." Fatally Yours "Engrossing and incredibly brutaa damned good horror story." Bloodtype Online "His name is Joseph D'Lacey, and he is seriously talented - horror at it's most horrific." The Big Green Bookshop --טקסט זה מתייחס למהדורת kindle_edition חלופית.
About the Author
Joseph D'Lacey is the author of The Kill Crew. --טקסט זה מתייחס למהדורת kindle_edition חלופית.
From the Author
Meat was my first published novenumber six of nine I've written so far. It was a disturbing and difficult book to write in ways I didn't anticipate.
I intended to write something bloody and unsettling. The process of slaughter was always going to form the central theme. I wanted the book to have authenticity and authority and that meant - for a change, in my case! - some research. I did it much of it online, viewing many hours of factory farming, animal transport and slaughter footage. Some of it was 'authorised', the better part of it was clandestine. I read articles on modern methods of relieving many kinds of animals of their flesh. How to keep them healthy until slaughter, how to slaughter them without ruining their flavour, how to slaughter them at high speed, how to minimise cost and maximise profit.
The taking and eating of flesh is a business on a scale no one likes to think about. In business, especially corporate business, making money comes before animal welfare. Anything approaching respect for animals is way, way down the list of priorities.
Suddenly, here was a new dilemma: was I writing a horror novel or was I making a point about the moral issues involved with farming animals for their flesh? I couldn't just ignore everything I'd discovered. Similarly, I didn't want to browbeat readers when I should have been entertaining them.
I tried to navigate a channel between my thoughts.
It didn't go well at the start. About a third of the way into the first draft, disgusted and repulsed by what I was creating, I stopped. I was having real problems holding the horror of it in my mind. It wasn't until I told Bloody Books about the project and they expressed serious interest that I started writing again - this time with the possibility of publication urging me on.
And so, MEAT was published in Feb '08 and people started reading it. 90% of the feedback I've received from the public and reviewers has been incredibly positive. Some people were merely entertained - the most important job of a fiction writer fulfilled. Some people were happily horrified. Some people gave up eating meat. And a few interpreted the novel as me preaching a vegetarian doctrinthose few didn't like it!
I hope you'll take something enduring away from the tale. I did: I'm now a vegetarian... --טקסט זה מתייחס למהדורת kindle_edition חלופית.
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/22881405e2747eaeddf8291c418800ce/Meat_by_Joseph_DLacey.
https://k2s.cc/file/c3cfb2e2b41cc/Meat_by_Joseph_DLacey.
