Hackenfeller's Ape (Faber Editions) (ePub)
'Ingenious.' Observer
'Sheer originality.' Daily Telegraph
When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again.
In London Zoo, Professor Darrylhyde is singing to the...
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'Flawless.' Sunday Times
'Ingenious.' Observer
'Sheer originality.' Daily Telegraph
When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again.
In London Zoo, Professor Darrylhyde is singing to the apes again. Outside their cage, he watches the two animals, longing to observe the mating ritual of this rare species. But Percy, inhibited by confinement and melancholy, is repulsing Edwina's desirous advances. Soon, the Professor's connection increases as he talks, croons, befriends. So when a scientist arrives on a secret governmental mission to launch Percy into space, he vows to secure his freedom - but when met by society's indifference, he takes matters into his own hands ...
A trailblazing animal rights campaigner, Brigid Brophy's sensational 1953 novel is as provocative and philosophical seventy years on. An electric moral fable, it is as much a blazingly satirical reflection on homo sapiens as the non-human - on our capacity for violence, red in tooth and claw, not only to other species, but our own.
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Practice at the University of Cumbria. Twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, she is the award-winning author of six novels and three short- story collections: The Beautiful Indifference, Madame Zero and Sudden Traveller. She is currently the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, and twice its winner with 'Mrs Fox' and 'The Grotesques'. Her most recent novel is Burntcoat, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the USA and he South Bank Sky Arts award, as well as being longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award.
- Autor: Brigid Brophy
- 2023, Main, 192 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- ISBN-10: 0571381308
- ISBN-13: 9780571381302
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2023
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