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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st. Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Grey boards, black quarter cloth, silver foil to spine. Canadian author; shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. "What's local in a world that is becoming one global monoculture? That's the question confronting Jeremy Papier, the Vancouver chef at the center of Taylor's comic debut novel. Jeremy divides chefs into two types: the transnational Crips, who mix, say, Chilean farm-bred salmon and kimchi, without compunction; and Bloods, who are purists, stubbornly local in their food choices. Along with his friend Jules Capelli, another Blood, Jeremy runs the Monkey's Paw Bistro, making meals from mostly local ingredients for local foodies. Storm clouds lie on the horizon, however. Jeremy is deep in debt. To get by, he scams some $2, 000 with the aid of Benny, a customer-turned-girlfriend. The scam backfires, and Jeremy has to turn to Dante Beale, an old family friend and the owner of a national chain of coffee houses, for money. Dante redesigns the bistro, turning it into a potential Crip palace. Jules is fired. Jeremy, under contract, remains. Turning for solace to his father, an anthropologist whose major project is living with the homeless in Stanley Park, Jeremy is reluctantly drawn into his father's work and the investigation of a decades-old mystery involving two children killed in the park. Along the way, he becomes fascinated by cooking for the homeless, and the joys of preparing squirrel, raccoon and starlings carry him into a glorious prank, which he plays at the opening of Beale's redesigned bistro. Taylor has written a sort of cook's version of the anti-WTO protests, striking a heartfelt and entertaining blow against conformity."--Publishers Weekly.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First US edition. Jacket present, with no significant shelfwear. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. Text clean and unmarked. Dust jacket protected by a removable clear jacket cover. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!
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Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). Stated 1st American edition, no number line. Book is as new. Dust jacket has faint edgewear. 'Autographed Copy' sticker. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 423 p. Audience: General/trade. By the Journey Prize-winning author of 'The Rule of Stephens' and 'The Blue Light Project'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.