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Walt and Judy's happiness has been blighted by their childlessness; although their marriage seems blissful, Judy feels increasingly empty and Walt longs to make her happy again. So one day he brings home Looee - a baby chimpanzee. Looee, exuberant and demanding, immediately fills the gap in Walt and Judy's life, and they come to love him as their own son. Like any child, Looee is affectionate and quick to learn, generous and engaging. But he is also a deeply unpredictable animal, and one night their unique family life is changed forever. At the Girdish Institute, chimpanzees have been studied for decades to prove that they are political, altruistic, often angry but also capable of forgiveness. The chimps at the Institute travel a parallel path to Looee's; they experience friendship, loss and rivalry, just as he does. When these two paths meet, startling truths are revealed about all great apes, captive and free, beloved or abandoned. Told alternately from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is a profound and gripping story about the things we hold sacred and the truths of nature we so often ignore.
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Some writers really do ask what it is to be human, with unsettling results. Colin McAdam's third book belongs to this category. --The Sunday Times
Compelling --Scotsman
Impressive, deft and rich ... This is a serious, thoughtful piece of work. --Anthony Cummins, The Daily Telegraph
Audacious, unsettling, a remarkable achievement. The narrative's radical other half lends the novel a rare depth and McAdam's prose is so consistent that it binds into a luminous, flashing reverie of primate existence. --Times Literary Supplement
I was utterly devastated by Colin McAdam's A Beautiful Truth. --'Books of the Year' chosen by Eleanor Catton, Guardian
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COLIN McADAM has written for Harpers' and The Walrus. His novel Some Great Thing won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the U.K. His second novel, Fall, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennon Prize. Both were published in the UK by Jonathan Cape. He lives in Toronto.
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- EditoreGranta
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1847088473
- ISBN 13 9781847088475
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
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