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2014 novel by David Cronenberg

Consumed
First edition cover
Author	David Cronenberg
Cover artist	Chip Kidd
Language	English
Genre	Horror
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	2014
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	308
ISBN	978-1-4165-9614-1
OCLC	862347743

Consumed is the first novel by the Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor David Cronenberg.^[1] The novel is driven by a globe-trotting, photojournalist French couple in their sixties that pursue stories featuring rather unusual people.^[1]

Cronenberg's novel has been compared to Burroughs, Ballard and DeLillo.^[2] The book was reviewed in The New York Times,^[3] The Guardian^[1] and The Independent.^[4]

The Guardian wrote the book had "similarly queasy appeal" to Cronenberg's films and was an "utterly depraved tale of sex, technology, and conspiracy."^[1]

Stephen King called the book an "eye-opened dazzler" and "as troubling, sinister, and enthralling as his films."^[5] Viggo Mortensen said the book had the "scope and poetic exactitude of Nabokov's best work" and had the power to "unsettle, disarm, and...make the reader absolutely complicit."^[5]

According to WorldCat, the book is held in 622 libraries.^[6]

References

1 2 3 4 Poole, Steven (8 October 2014). "Consumed by David Cronenberg review – body horror and techno lust in director's debut novel". The Guardian.
↑ Litt, Toby (6 November 2014). "David Cronenberg's first novel is so good, he should ditch his day job". New Statesman. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
↑ Lethem, Jonathan (26 September 2014). "All Atwitter: 'Consumed,' by David Cronenberg". The New York Times.
↑ Hannah McGill. "Consumed by David Cronenberg, book review: The sunny side of geeky perverts". Independent. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
1 2 Cronenberg, David (September 30, 2014). Consumed. Scribner. ISBN 978-1416596134.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
↑ Consumed: a novel. OCLC 862347743.

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Filmography
Feature films	Stereo (1969) Crimes of the Future (1970) Shivers (1975) Rabid (1977) Fast Company (1979) The Brood (1979) Scanners (1981) Videodrome (1983) The Dead Zone (1983) The Fly (1986) Dead Ringers (1988) Naked Lunch (1991) M. Butterfly (1993) Crash (1996) Existenz (1999) Spider (2002) A History of Violence (2005) Eastern Promises (2007) A Dangerous Method (2011) Cosmopolis (2012) Maps to the Stars (2014) Crimes of the Future (2022) The Shrouds (2024)
Short films	Transfer (1966) From the Drain (1967) Camera (2000) At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007, from To Each His Own Cinema)
Novel	Consumed (2014)

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