Stacey Glemboski performs this unique audiobook about the power of human love for an animal with a convincing style and unswerving fairness. The warmth in her voice and her skilled pacing work well. She has a fine ability to get inside the thoughts of the characters—human and simian. An unusual love triangle—among a researcher, an assistant, and Sam the chimp—serves as the hinge for a remarkable story. The tale of a chimp that can communicate with sign language is both wondrous and ominous: The professor who studies the chimp appears on the TV show “To Tell the Truth” with his gifted charge but does his research at the behest of a heartless boss. This is an enjoyable excursion into the links between humans and animals. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could*really*talk to the animals
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant.* A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it.**
What if it were possible to speak to the members of another species-to converse with them, not just give commands or coach them but to really have an exchange of ideas and a meeting of minds? Did apes have God?* Did they have souls?* Did they know about death and redemption?* About prayer?* The economy, rockets, space?* Did they miss the jungle?* Did they even know what the jungle was?* Did they dream?* Make wishes?* Hope for the future?
These are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel*Talk to Me, exploring *what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person-or animal...*
From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could*really*talk to the animals
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant.* A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it.**
What if it were possible to speak to the members of another species-to converse with them, not just give commands or coach them but to really have an exchange of ideas and a meeting of minds? Did apes have God?* Did they have souls?* Did they know about death and redemption?* About prayer?* The economy, rockets, space?* Did they miss the jungle?* Did they even know what the jungle was?* Did they dream?* Make wishes?* Hope for the future?
These are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel*Talk to Me, exploring *what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person-or animal...*
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940176383096 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 09/14/2021 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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