ZOO STORY Is People Pick
Earlier this week, Salon‘s Laura Miller made us want to read Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by journalist Thomas French. People echoes Miller’s enthusiasm, giving the book 4 of a possible 4 stars and making it a People Pick in the new issue (July 26). Miller found the story fascinating but the writing a bit pedestrian. People has no such trouble, saying it is,
Told with breathtaking novelistic punch…from Herman the chimp, who’s hopelessly in love with blondes, to the ambitious zoo CEO whose dreams of expansion lead to his undoing, the book uncages a story about conservation, freedom and the line between heeding and exploiting the call of the wild.
Holds in several libraries are growing, on light ordering.
Who could resist that cover?
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Tantor Audio; Read by John Allen Nelson; UNABR; On Sale Date: 07/31/2010
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