Animal truth and other stories /
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 e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Orleans :
University of New Orleans Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 149 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781608012381 1608012387 |