HuGo: The Story of a Woman, a Silverback Gorilla, and their Son - Brossura

McKeeman, Bill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1477524908 ISBN 13: 9781477524909

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

The premise of HuGo takes us one more step along the way to dealing with other. Hugo, the central character, is half gorilla. How would we treat Hugo? How should we treat Hugo? How would Hugo deal with us?

I call myself Goma.
I am in Rwanda before its troubles.
I have enough of my own.

Goma must raise her son Hugo in a world unprepared for who and what he is and can be. Read on to share their adventures.

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L'autore:

Bill McKeeman grew up in California. He earned a BA in Math from Berkeley, MA in Math from George Washington University and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. He fought the Cold War flying aircraft for the US Navy, taught Physics at the US Naval Academy, and Computer Science at Stanford, The University of California at Santa Cruz, Harvard and Dartmouth. He holds over 20 patents from many years as a computer designer/programmer for Burroughs Corporation, Digital and The MathWorks. The book HuGo, his first work of fiction, comes from a lifelong puzzlement with the propensity of people to look down on and often mistreat almost everyone who is different, including the great apes. He now is retired in New Hampshire.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1477524908
• ISBN 13: 9781477524909
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 394