![]() ![]() It is a subversive joy to be in Dorothy’s company for this wild ride, and A Certain Hunger is compelling, funny and shocking in equal measure. Summers is obviously equating her central character’s sexual and literal appetites, comparing the excesses of both into the bargain. ![]() ![]() As a food critic, Dorothy’s way with words is languorous and visceral, and the descriptions of violence and cooking are equally vivid and eye-watering. A Certain Hunger brings to mind similar novels which ask that the reader go along for the ride with a central monster seemingly lacking in empathy – Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and John Niven’s Kill Your Friends spring to mind.īut what makes this story so delicious (sorry) is the gleeful abandon of Summers’ writing, coupled with Dorothy’s passions and appetites. ![]()
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