Animal Crackers

Autori

• Hannah Tinti

Parametri

• Animali
• Narrativa
• Narrativa contemporanea
• Natura, animali
• Racconti

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A zoo worker, cautiously washing down Marysue the elephant, thinks of the strange, grim stories his co-workers have told him about their lives. Giraffes in another zoo demand better living conditions and stage a mock group suicide to attract public notice. A girl escapes her repressive finishing school by running off with her lover to the African jungle - but takes longer to give the slip to the private detectives hired by her father. Hannah Tinti's debut collection combines the virtues of traditional story-telling with utter freshness and modernity. Snake or dog, buffalo or turkey, the animals in her brilliant, darkly comic stories are never cute, as they hold up a disturbing mirror to the human beings around them.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2004

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