| International Standard Book Number |
9781250810199 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250810182 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250810183 hardcover
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
823/.92 23/eng/20220225
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| Personal Name |
Dean, Sunyi, author.
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| Title Statement |
The book eaters / Sunyi Dean.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2022
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Tor, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
298 pages ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| General Note |
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon--like all other book eater women--is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers and sons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Control (Psychology) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sex role Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motherhood Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Food Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Books Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Horror. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Clans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hunger Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
England, Northern Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fairy tales. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fictional Work
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Dean, Sunyi. First edition New York : TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022 Book eaters. (DLC) 2022008285 9781250810199
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