Synopsis
Madelene's behavioral scientist husband brings home a three-hundred-pound ape named Erasmus, and she comes out of her drunken lethargy to become the ape's champion, determined to save him from inhumane tests, and eventually they flee together and fall in love. Reprint.
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"The Woman and the Ape has many arrestingly stylish and inventive passages and an overall brilliance of tone that shows once again the originality of Mr. Hoeg's voice" (New York Times)
"No imaginative writer working today is any more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg... An utterly original mix of fantasy, fable, myth, and love story" (Backlist)
"Høeg is a writer determined to make new footprints in the snow" (Guardian)
Book Description
From the author of international success Smilla’s Sense of Snow, comes a brilliant, hilarious and thought-provoking love story, which unites fantasy, fable, and myth with reality, and a woman with an ape.
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Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. First US Paper. Erasmus is an intelligent ape, freed from the smugglers trying to bring him into the country. He is sent to live with Madelene and her husband Adam, who thinks Erasmus would be a lucrative addition to Adam's zoo. Madelene want so save Erasmus from a series of tests that would rob him of his nature - her compassion turns to passion, and she and Erasmus run away.Translated from Danish by Barbara Haveland. Remainder mark. Published @ $13.95. Seller Inventory # 016179
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