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On animals / Susan Orlean.
Susan Orlean, beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as a national treasure by The Washington Post, gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. From the author of 'The Library Book'.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982181536 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2021.
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- Baker & Taylor
Examining animal-human relationships through captivating stories she has written over the course of her career, the author, in this book that is equal parts wonderful and profound, celebrates the cross-species connections that grace our collective existence. 150,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Examining animal-human relationships through captivating stories she has written over the course of her career, the author, in this book that is equal parts wonderful and profound, celebrates the cross-species connections that grace our collective existence. - Simon and Schuster
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
âMagnificent.â âThe New York Times * âBeguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.â âSan Francisco Chronicle * âSpectacular.â âStar Tribune (Minneapolis) * âFull of astonishments.â âThe Boston Globe
Susan Orleanâthe beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as âa national treasureâ by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Bookâgathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals.
âHow we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,â writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, sheâs been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career.
These stories consider a range of creaturesâthe household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigersâsomething none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the worldâs most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the worldâs hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home.
Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orleanâs stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existence.
