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Love in Infant Monkeys

Love in Infant Monkeys
  • Publisher: Soft Skull Press
  • Available in: Paperback, eBook
  • Published: June 19, 1919
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

Millet works a kind of spell … You could read this collection as a critique — of our celebrity culture, of the uses we make of unresponding creatures — and Millet is sufficiently thorough to layer these resonances in a satisfying way.
–The New York Times Book Review

From the book jacket…

Love in Infant Monkeys is a collection of short stories about famous people and their encounters with animals, including Madonna experiencing remorse after she shoots a pheasant on her English estate, Noam Chomsky in a garbage dump with a gerbil cage, Sharon Stone’s husband’s run-in with a Komodo dragon, and Thomas Edison’s reaction to a filmstrip he’s made of the electrocution death of Topsy, a rogue circus elephant.


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