Author Event: New M.F.K. Fisher Bio | Noe Valley

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“Although many people write about food and hunger, there are few who write about it well. Rarer still is a writer who composes prose with the precision and grace of M.F.K. Fisher. Her lines are imbued with poetry and philosophy that could make the greatest of writers weep.”

In this stunning portrait of M.F.K. Fisher and the heartbreak and happiness that catapulted her to creative success, Anne Zimmerman is the careful witness, lingering beside Fisher through her most dramatic and productive years.

In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, as the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher’s life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria that washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most idyllic and fleeting moments of her life, the stories of Fisher’s love for food and her love for family and men are meticulously researched and exquisitely captured in this book.

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