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 spe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Orleans, Louisiana :
University of New Orleans Press,
2022
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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: | 1 online resource (149 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781608012398 1608012395 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2022). |
