Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories - Lydia Millet - Books - Soft Skull Press - 9781593762520 - September 22, 2009
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Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories Original edition

Lydia Millet

Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories Original edition

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.

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.


208 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 22, 2009
ISBN13 9781593762520
Publishers Soft Skull Press
Pages 192
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 10 mm   ·   204 g
Language English  

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