Animal truth and other stories /

Animal truth and other stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Muir, Sharona, 1957- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New Orleans, Louisiana : University of New Orleans Press, [2022]
Description:	149 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Human-animal relationships -- Fiction. Animals -- Fiction. Short stories. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12779507

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ISBN:	9781608012381 1608012387 9781608012398
Summary:	"Animal Truth and Other Stories is a collection of eco-fabulist tales in which adventures with fantastic animals and real science lead to metamorphoses of the heart. Familiar legends, from Faust and Oedipus to werewolves and time travel, appear in radically new ways: An artist obsessed with species extinction unwittingly summons a demonic double when he creates a "banquet" featuring a baked mermaid. A brilliant woman studying a rare fish makes a soul-shattering discovery about motherhood. A time-travelling billionaire escapes his modern life only to have his heart broken by a lovely creature in Earth's remote past. Each tale in this collection turns into gold the prickling straw of anxieties about our continued life on the planet. By turns playful, terrifying, haunting, and sensuous, these stories inspire wonder at the interwoven lives of human and nonhuman beings"--
Other form:	Online version: Muir, Sharona, 1957- Animal truth and other stories New Orleans, Louisiana : University of New Orleans Press, [2022] 9781608012398

Table of Contents:

Menu: extinction
The bath of Venus
Animal truth
Bedcrumbs
The gifts of Chief Wang
The weredog.