
Easy Meat
Rachel Trezise(Author)
Parthian Books (Publisher)
Published on 4. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-1-912681-24-2 (ISBN)
Description
The south Wales Valleys, 23rd June, 2016. It's
another long day chopping beef carcasses up at the
slaughterhouse for former reality TV star and Iron Man
contender, Caleb Jenkins, whose untroubled world
unravelled when his old man's carpet business went
bust last year, another casualty of the global financial
crisis. While he's busy trying to manage the well-
being of his conspiracy-theorist brother, the mortgage
keeping a roof over his bankrupt parents' heads, his own
excruciating grief, internal rage and impossible credit
score, politicians of all persuasions are promising the
scared and voiceless people around him real change.
Desperate for acknowledgement and a transformation
he can't quite bring about by his own means, Caleb is
on the edge.
Easy Meat is a glimpse of a young man and a country on
the verge of a momentous decision.
another long day chopping beef carcasses up at the
slaughterhouse for former reality TV star and Iron Man
contender, Caleb Jenkins, whose untroubled world
unravelled when his old man's carpet business went
bust last year, another casualty of the global financial
crisis. While he's busy trying to manage the well-
being of his conspiracy-theorist brother, the mortgage
keeping a roof over his bankrupt parents' heads, his own
excruciating grief, internal rage and impossible credit
score, politicians of all persuasions are promising the
scared and voiceless people around him real change.
Desperate for acknowledgement and a transformation
he can't quite bring about by his own means, Caleb is
on the edge.
Easy Meat is a glimpse of a young man and a country on
the verge of a momentous decision.
Reviews / Votes
'Rachel Trezise ... is a champion of the dispossessed, the off-kilter and the lost.' - Willy VlautinMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912681-24-2 (9781912681242)
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Rachel Trezise's debut novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl won a place on the Orange Futures List in 2002 and is now part of the Library of Wales series. In 2006 her short story collection Fresh Apples won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second collection Cosmic Latte won the Edge Hill Prize Readers' Award in 2013 while her travel memoir Dial M for Merthyr won the Max Boyce Award. Her first play Tonypandemonium was produced by the National Theatre of Wales and won the Theatre Critics for Wales Award for best production. We're Still Here was also produced by the National Theatre of Wales in 2017 while Cotton Fingers toured Wales, Ireland and Scotland, receiving a Summerhall Lustrum Award at the Edinburgh Festival. She lives in the Rhondda.