- Animal rights movement, Human-animal relationships, Reality television programs, Fiction
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Sara Gruen
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Bond Street Books, Random House Publishing Group, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781611294194
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