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Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman’s macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris.
Pim is a delicate youth―stringy, solemn, and prone to bouts of unexplained weeping. When he enrolls in trade school as an apprentice butcher, his mentors have low expectations, but his lanky body conceals a peculiar flame: a passionate devotion to animals. In an industry that strives to distance the chopping block from the dinner plate, his ardor might seem like a handicap, but Pim rises through the knife-wielding ranks with a barely-tethered zeal. He scours blood from floor mats and stacks carcasses in the cold room by day. By night he tries to slake his appetites: at the table, over boudin sausage and steak tartare, and in bed, with women whose flanks, ribs, and haunches he maps as they undress each other.
Pim’s professional successes mount but his cravings gnaw. In the library he teases out histories, like the blood-drinking forerunners to vampirism or the Medieval trial of a killer pig, sentenced to death by hanging. Meat crowds his waking thoughts. Even as he carves ripe flesh from exquisite bone, he labors to close the gap between man and beast―to be seen, understood, even loved, by a primordial mind. Will this ravenous obsession yield to madness, or to ecstasy?
With shades of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Joy Sorman’s Tenderloin is an ethical foray, fever dream, and paean to an ageless hunger. Vegetarians and carnivores alike are invited to feast at this sumptuous literary table. After all, we are what we eat.
Publisher : Restless Books (April 16, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1632063611
ISBN-13 : 978-1632063618
Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
Reviewer: Sadie Hartmann
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gruesome and Disturbing but Beautiful too
Review: I meant to only read the first page, but I could not stop there. This was, by far, one of the most original stories I've ever read. A man dedicated to the art, the craft of butchering meat. But like most people obsessed with perfection, Pim realizes that once he has achieved his life's dream, there has to be more. Pim devises a plan to truly unlock the highest form of butchery.What an absolutely gruesome and disturbing tale--yet, it was told so eloquently--I was fascinated. The prose is accessible and unique, Joy Sorman has a superb storytelling voice...like I was watching an award-winning A24 movie.Of course, I saw Jesse Plemons in this role. He played a butcher in the 3rd season of Fargo opposite his real-life wife, Kirsten Dunst. He was perfect in this movie in my mind.Major triggers for animal lovers. Explicit slaughterhouse/butchering details. Very difficult to stomach, in fact--I was already leaning into a plant-based diet and now I'm going full-on.This book makes Tender is the Flesh feel like child's play.
Reviewer: Lobelia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Unpredictable and Unforgettable
Review: This is an odd but ultimately very memorable book, short and blood-red. I like natural history, so I found the butchering details fascinating rather than repellent. "Tenderloin" even convinced me to visit a small-scale slaughterhouse to see what the process actually looks like â in fact a very wellrun place used mostly by farm families raising a few of their own animals for meat. I imagined Pim by my side, deciding whether these cows and pigs had led dignified livesâ¦I read the book in both French and English. The translation is excellent. Also, you're looking for a French book that's short and not too difficult(despite a little technical butchering vocabulary), this is a good choice.