![]() ![]() This novel goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human-to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail. ![]() ![]() Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest and amazingly accomplished. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Bruno is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Hale will read from and sign his critically acclaimed debut novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore ($24.99 Twelve). The concepts are controversial, imaginative. The language is fluid, specific, and profound. Read more Print length 592 pages Language English Publication date FebruDimensions 5.25 x 1. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore is nothing short of a masterpiece. He has been a night shift baker, a security guard, a trompe l’oeil painter, a pizza deliverer, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human - to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail. Colfax Avenue: A Colorado native, now living in New York, Benjamin Hale is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost’s Fellowship to complete his novel, which went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. Plunging into the seven stories in Hales (The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore) first collection is like putting a finger into somebody elses navel. ![]()
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