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."Videos