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Talk to Me: A Novel

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<p><strong>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 <em>really</em> talk to the animals</strong><br /><br />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&apos;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.  <br /></p><p>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?</p><p>These are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel <em>Talk to Me</em>, exploring  what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person—or animal… </p>

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Release Date
Sep 14, 2021
Authors
Boyle, T.C.
Formats
Kindle eBook
Label
Ecco
Content Languages
[object Object]
Number Of Pages
350
Publication Date
2021-09-14
Publisher
Ecco
Studio
Ecco
Lang
en-US

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AIDJSQB38001
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