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Language
English
Description
Like "Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil" uses animals to discuss the human condition, in this case, to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys, a novelist and a taxidermist, who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Toehold, Alaska, is a bush village as far away from the world as you can get without falling into the Arctic Ocean. For years, Cody, a taxidermist, and Mel, a gal drifter, have ignored the romantic tension between themselves—until the appearance of an outsider, a hard-edged Hollywood producer, triggers a change.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Caught up in a passionate love affair, Scarlett unravels her obsession with her lover's taxidermy. The delicate balance of loneliness and jealousy, entrapment and freedom that they so intimately share tips when her twin brother shows up."--Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a research subject in an experiment conducted by the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, D.C., where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys...
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