The Woman and the Ape
Madelene's behavioral scientist husband brings home a three-hundred-pound ape named Erasmus, and she comes out of her drunken lethargy to become the ape's champion, determined to save him from inhumane tests, and eventually they flee together and fall in love. Reprint."
Madelene's behavioral scientist husband brings home a three-hundred-pound ape named Erasmus, and she comes out of her drunken lethargy to become the ape's champion, determined to save him from inhumane tests, and eventually they flee together and fall in love. Reprint."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140268447 (0140268448)
Publish date: September 1st 1997
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Animals,
Scandinavian Literature,
Danish
Interesting and satisfying. The characters never quite came to life for me emotionally but certainly engaged me mentally. Good story and ends well which is always really difficult to do.
This will be a parable full of insight to some out there - skewed vets maybe.And that, ladies and gentlemen is the most charitable comment I can think of at this precise moment.
Well, that was a very surprising book indeed, everybody had said so. Reconciled myself with Peter Hoeg ( I did have some trouble with Smilla). But I must admit the man is good. It is hard to get away with such a plot.And I loved Madelene's emancipation. Thanks for "pushing" it to me, M!
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