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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
'Brilliantly riffing on the apeness of humans and vice versa, the beautiful truth of McAdam's novel is complex, subtle and intensely moving' --Guardian
'An illuminating and touching portrait' --Irish Times
'A vivid, impressionistic and often harrowing portrait of the relationship between people and chimps... McAdam has written a beautifully strange and thought-provoking novel; its truth is elusive as well as beautiful' **** --Independent on Sunday
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COLIN McADAM has written for Harper's and The Walrus. His novel Some Great Thing won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book and for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, Fall, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. He lives in Toronto.
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- EditoreGranta
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 1847088503
- ISBN 13 9781847088505
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine386
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