{"product_id":"love-in-infant-monkeys-9781593762520","title":"Love in Infant Monkeys","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnimals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593762520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/03\/2009 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009 pg. 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2009 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/11\/2009 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lydia Millet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145844289717,"sku":"9781593762520","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6b178adb-0966-47f3-8363-fd0c7c4b0a3c.jpg?v=1715698317","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-in-infant-monkeys-9781593762520","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}