As Meat Loves Salt

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The same goes for Ferris, another flawed yet highly interesting character who is so different from Jacob in many ways yet equals him in terms of his passions. I also think it must be polarizing, a book readers might find horribly disturbing, or brilliant and haunting (or like me, both. Since I opened Maria McCann's astonishing debut novel on June 22, I've found myself dragged into its world of violence, love, sexual confusion and religious obsession. After seeming to escape a troubled past, he falls in love with a fellow warrior, who passionately accepts and teaches him of the love between men, yet their own obsessive behavior threatens to destory everything they hoped to build. Although written in first person, which so many people tend to be biased against because it has been lamentably done so many times, this author does it well.

Over the course of four acts detailing Jacob’s life, author Maria McCann delivers everything a reader could ever ask for in a fiction novel. No detail is spared: the realities of war are hideously vivid; any scene featuring illness or medical treatment is. The shattering events of war” are, at best, a very distant and faint backdrop throughout most of the book. He is on the brink of marriage to his virginal sweetheart, but is unsure of his emotional needs, and in possession of a boiling point he reaches all too often. Maria McCann and her irresistible narration and beautifully rendered characters made AMLS a full package.But he and the "dark angel" lurking in his mind seem destined to destroy them instead, which makes him a fascinating and complex anti-hero. Those among you with an art education more solid than mine might recognize the painting in it as The Wounded Man ( L’homme blessé) by the French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). from the point of view of a man, a soldier in that time – knowing that she was going to have to show his view of the war etc but 2.

This book does that; it’s not to say that there isn’t superb period detail in there, there is, but it’s only brought out when it’s necessary. Having learned all this, I became even more convinced that the person who designed this cover had indeed read the book and, more importantly, had understood it.He pulls a knife on the man who will become his lover in London, where he nearly succeeds in raping him too.