Animal Truth and Other Stories
Sharona Muir$16.11
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Animal Truth and Other Stories is a collection of eco-fabulist tales in which adventures with fantastic animals and real science lead to metamorphoses of the heart. Familiar legends, from Faust and Oedipus to werewolves and time travel, appear in radically new ways: An artist obsessed with species extinction unwittingly summons a demonic double when he creates a banquet featuring a baked mermaid. A brilliant woman studying a rare fish makes a soul-shattering discovery about motherhood. A time-travelling billionaire escapes his modern life only to have his heart broken by a lovely creature in Earth's remote past.
Each tale in this collection turns into gold the prickling straw of anxieties about our continued life on the planet. By turns playful, terrifying, haunting, and sensuous, these stories inspire wonder at the interwoven lives of human and nonhuman beings.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
Published: 11/22/2022
ISBN: 9781608012381
Pages: 275
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/26/2022
Each tale in this collection turns into gold the prickling straw of anxieties about our continued life on the planet. By turns playful, terrifying, haunting, and sensuous, these stories inspire wonder at the interwoven lives of human and nonhuman beings.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
Published: 11/22/2022
ISBN: 9781608012381
Pages: 275
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/26/2022