Binding: Paperback
Description: From bestselling and award - winning author T. C. Boyle a lively thought - provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam his juvenile chimp to speak in sign language Aimee Villard an undergraduate at Guy's university is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it. What if it were possible to speak to the members of another species to converse with them not just give commands or coach them but to really have an exchange of ideas and a meeting of minds? Did apes have God? Did they have souls? Did they know about death and redemption? About prayer? The economy rockets space? Did they miss the jungle? Did they even know what the jungle was? Did they dream? Make wishes? Hope for the future? These are some the questions T. C. Boyle asks in his wide - ranging and hilarious new novel Talk to Me exploring what it means to be human to communicate with another and to truly know another person or animal
Title: Talk To Me A Novel
Author(s): Boyle T. C.
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063052833
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/14/2022