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Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession Hardcover – December 1, 2009

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Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts.

The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world--from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.

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Little, Brown and Company
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December 1, 2009
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The author of the charming, riveting, thrilling—and successfully filmed—Julie and Julia (2005), in which Powell recounted her year spent cooking all the recipes in Julia Child’s classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has turned to butchery! As she relays in her new memoir, after her “year with Julia,” she apprenticed in a butcher shop in upstate New York and learned the trade from the inside out, from sinew to steak. Another prominent theme here is the stress placed on her marriage to the understanding, even noble Eric (as he was depicted in the previous memoir) by their mutual infidelities. It’s a grim book. Powell’s fans happily voyaged with her through Julia Child’s cookbook, but taking the journey through her learning the “art” of butchery is another matter. Graphic, even gross, detail about “breaking down” a beef or pig carcass and about her adulterous sex life (Do we really want to hear about her phone sex with her lover?) blocks any sunshine from emerging from these pages. The previous book made “foodies” of us all, but this book may convince us that vegetarians have had the right idea all along. --Brad Hooper

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"Julie Powell's follow-up to Julie & Julia paints a visceral, compulsively readable picture of what it looks like when you fully indulge with a fantasy object who isn't your spouse.... Powell has honed her writing chops along with her culinary skills, and her extended metaphor is dead on: how we can systematically hack each other apart without ever getting to the heart of our desires." (Elle Miranda Purves)

"Got a hobby you consider therapy? You'll eat up this second memoir by the author of Julie and Julia. In it, Powell tries to end an adulterous affair by immersing herself in an apprenticeship at a butcher shop--and embarks on a world tour of meat. How she finds her way home is the marrow of this tell-all travelogue/love story. Well done!" (Self Elisabeth Egan)

"From the title to the last page, former blogger Julie Powell's startling second memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, is smart and compelling.... Powell's steadfast femininity and confident voice are refreshing." (The San Francisco Chronicle Laura Impellizzeri)

"Ms. Powell is a wonderful prose writer." (The Wall Street Journal Moira Hodgson)

"[A]s intoxicating as baked bone marrow.... Powell is reckless, yes, but also incredibly brave as she cuts through the raw flesh of her marriage, exposing every quivering nerve. It is an evisceration not without its insight and hard-won rewards. It's also funny....The book's joys are many.... In her self-gutting story we see our own fleshy vulnerabilities when it comes to the intricacies of love."

(The Houston Chronicle Greg Morago)

"[A]n engaging writer. Fast, funny and observant...she's your mean best friend sending instant messages that make you snort at your desk." (The New York Times Book Review Christine Muhlke)

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0316003360
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (December 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780316003360
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316003360
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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Julie Powell thrust herself from obscurity (and an uninspiring temp job) to cyber-celebrityhood when, in 2002, she embarked on an ambitious yearlong cooking (and blogging) expedition through all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She detailed the experience in her critically acclaimed 2005 New York Times bestselling memoir, Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in August 2009. Julie has made appearances on national television shows from ABC's "Good Morning America" and CBS's "The Early Show" to "The Martha Stewart Show" and Food Network's "Iron Chef America," and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including Bon Appétit, Food and Wine, Harper's Bazaar, New York Times, Washington Post, and more. She is a two-time James Beard Award winner, has been awarded an honorary degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and was the first ever winner of the Overall Lulu Blooker Prize for Books.

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tired bob

Love and butchery

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017

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I think that the primary problem with this book is that the first book was Ephronized into a chick film. This book is well-written, sharply observed, and brave. I loved learning about butchery. And I first bought this as a Kindle book, but this is a book that I will keep, so I bought the tangible version. It's about a very specific part of a person's life. Her life. If you don't like it, go back to watching movies on the Hallmark channel.

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Bobbi Miller

Horrid and vulgar!

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020

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Vulgar and horrible - I slogged through several chapters but just could not waste anymore time on it. I also threw it in the trash because that’s what you do with garbage. What a total waste of my hard-earned cash!

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Christina in Austin

Meh

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013

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It's really hard for me to write a review for this book because for everything that moved me, other stuff frustrated me or was hard for me to connect to. First off, I found it easier to connect to this Julie Powell than the 'Julie & Julia' Julie Powell. It didn't feel like she was hiding behind Julia Child or that cooking challenge she put herself through. I'm as surprised as anyone to see that I got into a memoir about adultery (no judgement) because personally it's a hard subject for me to delve into. But I did and I got invested in the dynamics of the marriage. I was most surprised that I enjoyed the segments about butchering, since it's never been something I've been interested in. Without giving away too much plot, I ultimately thought that this book built a lot of promise for telling tales of personal renewal and growth within a relationship, only to fall short. Honestly, I could see where someone could disagree with my previous sentence and that's fair. But whatever accounts of renewal and rejuvenation were included didn't do it for me. I finished feeling unsatisfied, disappointed and let down. That being said, though, I don't regret the journey I had reading the book.

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Carrie

Don't bother with this cheap read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015

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If you want to read a "book" on how a person manages to make every mistake possible in their marriage, totally unapologetically, yet still manages to blame all their problems on the other person - and tries to make it sound pretty using any number of many-syllabled words and writer's cliches - this is the read for you. The point of view is irritating in its "pity me, poor me" language. Waste of money and CERTAINLY time.

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Erica S. Kane

A missed opportunity

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2009

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For most of the book, I wondered why no one suggested to the author that she try therapy. Not couples therapy...individual therapy. She freely uses terms like addiction referring to her affair and felt degraded by it. (And referring to your husband as being part of one bone probably isn't healthy either, in both cases adult independence is lacking.) So I was very tempted here to suggest that she find a good doctor or self-help group, because addiction is something that can be eased or cured.

But in the acknowledgments, I see that the author thanks her therapist. The book makes NO mention of any therapy. It suggests that learning how to butcher and travelling effected a cure. This is a cheat to the reader. While mastering a skill could certainly help, ultimately a great deal of reflection and inner examination is required to handle addiction. Suggesting otherwise is harmful to others who might have similar problems. I suspect the author's pride made her present a picture where she cured herself, completely over D and tolerantly allowing her husband to keep his girlfriend. It is not plausible. It is fairly clear that had D wanted to restart things, it would have happened. (Why would you need to "keep talking" to an ex-lover?) For those who despised the selfishness displayed in this book, fear not, it is its own punishment. Unless some significant therapeutic work has been done a new lover or dependency will appear.

From a literary standpoint, I enjoyed the first half of the book. Her descriptions of an obsessive love affair were entertaining and seemed true to life. Once the travelogue began, and the lover was out of the picture, the book dragged quite a lot. It was very difficult to finish. The ending was somewhat predictable. Needless to say it is very disappointing to have a book start out strong and then finish so weakly.

Infidelity is an inflammatory topic, and most reviews have understandably focussed on that. The author's behavior strikes me as addictive and self-destructive so I won't comment on the morality....however, what strikes me as pretty unforgiveable is that she would go ahead and *publish* all of this in cold blood. Did her husband agree to let her write this, portraying him as a saint who is too dependent on her to leave? How does he feel about having his private comments shared with the world? That said, if this were a great book, I'd still give it a high rating. It isn't, so I won't.

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