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Benjamin Hale

    Benjamin Hale es un recién graduado del Iowa Writers Workshop. Su obra se caracteriza por una aguda perspicacia en la psique humana, explorando a menudo temas de culpa, responsabilidad y la búsqueda de identidad en un mundo complejo. Hale combina magistralmente el humor con la seriedad, creando personajes memorables y narrativas convincentes que resuenan con los lectores.

    The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
    • The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

      • 593 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. 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. Learning of Bruno's ability to speak, Lydia takes Bruno into her home to oversee his education and nurture his passion for painting. But for all of his gifts, the chimpanzee has a rough time caging his more primal urges. His untimely outbursts ultimately cost Lydia her job, and send the unlikely pair on the road in what proves to be one of the most unforgettable journeys -- and most affecting love stories -- in recent literature. Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest and amazingly accomplished. 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.

      The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore2012
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