Love in Infant Monkeys

Each of these satirical stories sets a celebrity or a historical figure beside an animal. Madonna broods in a long interior monologue after shooting a pheasant on her estate; Thomas Edison is haunted by the elephant he had electrocuted; Jimmy Carter spares a swamp rabbit; Noam Chomsky talks about hamsters; David Hasselhoff's dachshund prompts thoughts of death; a woman who looks like Sharon Stone is lured to the bedside of an Indonesian billionaire who wants her as his concubine; and a dog walker cares deeply for his charges while despising their owners. The animals stand for nothing but themselves, and next to them the famous humans look foolish, self-absorbed and oddly vulnerable.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Genres

Satire, Nature (assigned by AI)

First published

2009

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9781593762520 (Soft Skull Press, United States)