Word: cannibale
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A Cannibal in Manhattan
Tama Janowitz's A Cannibal in Manhattan surely will rank at year's end as the singularly most annoying book of 1987. Janowitz somehow has failed to make an amusing tale out of the clever premise of a marriage between a purple-skinned polygamist and a rich Manhattan heiress. Her...
It's not the first time Janowitz has failed to deliver the goods. She won much publicity and praise for her first book, Slaves of New York, and Cannibal clearly is a hastily written attempt to capitalize on her sudden fame. The success of Slaves, though, was undeserved. That book...
The rest of the book is pure torture. When Mgungu's heiress, Maria Fishburn, blows him off after their wedding--"Why don't we wait until we take our honeymoon?" she says--the cannibal thinks to himself, "I presumed this was the general custom in the United States, or at...
The rest of the book is equally ridiculous, as the cannibal gets accused of murder and is forced to go on the run. Of course, disguises are difficult for someone with purple skin, so Mgungu ends up in jail. There Janowitz leaves him, still making pseudoprofound observations about the nature...