Consumed: A Novel
- Author: David Cronenberg
- Narrator: William Hurt
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 12:49:47
Synopsis
“An eye-opening dazzler” (Stephen King) about a pair of globetrotting, gore-obsessed journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding a famous couple, Célestine and Aristide, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead, and Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. Yet Naomi sets off to find him, and as she delves deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers the news story may only skim the surface of the disturbing acts they performed together.
Journalist Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár’s patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s and travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.
These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors, a writer of “fierce sculptural intensity” (Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review) who makes it “impossible to look away” (Publishers Weekly).
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Consumed 01 Title
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Consumed 02 Ch1
Duration: 46min -
Consumed 03 Ch2
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Consumed 04 Ch3
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Consumed 05 Ch4
Duration: 34min -
Consumed 06 Ch5
Duration: 35min -
Consumed 07 Ch6
Duration: 32min -
Consumed 08 Ch7
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Consumed 09 Ch8
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Consumed 10 Ch9
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Consumed 11 Ch10a
Duration: 56min -
Consumed 12 Ch10b
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Consumed 13 Ch11
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Consumed 14 Ch12a
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Consumed 15 Ch12b
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Consumed 16 Credits
Duration: 51s