Descent of Man - Softcover
In these outrageous, hilarious stories by one of the most imaginative young writers of fiction today, Idi Amin presides over the Second International Dada Fair, the Yerkes chimp runs off with his female trainer, and a Norse poet tries to overcome bard-block
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T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.
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Depicting Lassie, Idi Amin, chimps and a Norse poet, "Boyle has X-ray vision when he considers the incongruities of the way we live and the things we do. He manages to find weak spots, capitalize on them, build from them wild and absurd stories that give a new dimension to black humor," observed PW .
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0140092862
- ISBN 13 9780140092868
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages219
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