The Dissection
Abstract
My thesis is a novel about the life and death of an American chef, told through his autopsy. Entitled The Dissection, it is told in two narratives: the chef, August Sweeney, a Pantagruelian figure, mad for meat and offal, who rockets to TV stardom and then dies suddenly at 45; and Maya Zhu, the young pathologist tasked with dissecting him, and who in so doing comes to question everything she knows about how we live, and how we die.
Description
This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until May 2028 at the earliest.
Keywords
Fiction, Food, Novel, Autopsy