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Author Daisy Rockwell Releases New 'Taste' in
September
Mon, 22 Sep 2014, 17:21:04 EDT
TIPP CITY, Ohio, Sept. 22, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE)
-- Foxhead Books has recently published a new book by author
Daisy Rockwell entitled "Taste" (ISBN: 978-1940876047), in
September, 2014. Rockwell is the author of "The Little Book of
Terror," a volume of paintings and essays on the Global War on
Terror (Foxhead Books, 2012), and her collection of translations
of stories by Hindi author Upendranath Ashk, Hats and Doctors,
was published in 2013 by Penguin India. Her latest offering,
"Taste," is her first novel.
The book follows Daniel, a twenty-first century connoisseur with
distinctive and often anachronistic tastes - aesthetic, culinary,
and even mind-altering. When Daniel sets out to seek answers
about his past in long-sealed documents, he makes a startling
discovery that leads him on a cross-country quest.
In the course of his travels, he becomes preoccupied with Antoinette, an enigmatic archivist who may hold the key to his
search. When he discovers she may be involved with his closest friend, Roger, he comes to distrust them both. His quest
becomes a dangerous obsession that drives him to the brink of madness.
Rockwell's prose evokes the dark humor of Edgar Allan Poe and the uneasy aristocrats of Edith Wharton in this new novel of
aesthetic obsession.
The New York Times humor columnist Henry Alford praised Rockwell's novel, saying, "With huge amounts of imagination and
flair, Daisy Rockwell has written a wonderfully funny but ultimately chilling parable about the wages of connoisseurship. I
thrilled to it."
Rockwell received her PhD in South Asian Literature from The University of Chicago, and later directed the Center for South
Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She eventually left the academic world to pursue painting (and later,
writing) after coming to the realization that academia was not "a field in which creativity is prized or rewarded."
Having grown up in a family of artists in western Massachusetts, Rockwell has gained notoriety for her art, painting under the
alias, Lapata (pronounced "laapataa"), which is Urdu for "missing," or "absconded." She is the granddaughter of famed painter
and illustrator, Norman Rockwell, and posts her paintings regularly to Flickr. She also writes for the blog Chapati Mystery. Visit
her website http://www.daisyrockwell.com/ for more information.
About Foxhead Books:
Foxhead Books, a writer-owned and operated cooperative publishing house, publishes America's best writing without
mediation or compromise. For more information, visit their website at http://foxheadbooks.com/ .
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