Love in Infant Monkeys
  • Published:
    Sep-2009
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    177
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Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer.

Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants -- all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in a wildly inventive collection of stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review).

While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet's spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales.

“These incredibly crafted stories, with their rare intelligence, humor, and empathy, describe the furious collision of nature and science, man and animal, everyday citizen and celebrity, fact and fiction. Lydia Millet's writing sparkles with urgent brilliance.” -- Joe Meno
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    • First Edition
    • Sep-2009
    • Soft Skull Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1593762526
    • ISBN13: 9781593762520
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    • Sep-2009
    • Soft Skull Press, Inc.
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1593763816
    • ISBN13: 9781593763817
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    • Sep-2009
    • Soft Skull Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Jul-2021
    • Dreamscape Media, LLC
    • Audible
    •  
    • Aug-2021
    • Dreamscape Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1662084587
    • ISBN13: 9781662084584
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    • Aug-2021
    • Dreamscape Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1662085508
    • ISBN13: 9781662085505



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