![]() ![]() Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales. 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. 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. In this critically acclaimed collection, Lydia Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in wildly inventive stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). This book title, Love in Infant Monkeys (Stories), ISBN: 9781593762520, by Lydia Millet, published by Catapult (September 22, 2009) is available in. ![]() 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. Lydia Millet’s first story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys, is an easy read but by no means a simplistic one.The stories, most of which are under twenty pages, grip from the first page, largely due to Millet’s understanding and convincing use of voiceshe channels characters ranging from a pop star to a dog walker, a scientist to a simple everyday husbandbut also because of the. ![]()
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