Mammals

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One of the most internationally noteworthy titles from Europe in recent years, Mammals is a witty anatomization of modern life. Recalling the middle-class ennui of Tom Perotta and the wry surrealism of Chuck Palahniuk, Mammals is the story of one particularly hapless forty-something Parisian wending his way through the meaninglessness of modern life. Caustic, comic, and unflinchingly honest, Mammals is a cruel but beautiful tale of love, solitude, alcoholism, family life, and unemployment. This fictional memoir of a glorious loser recounts the life of the Uncle, an unhappy bachelor whose only true loves were a Polish girl and a divorcee. He is a drunk; he is sarcastic; he works and fails desultorily in several fields--working in a new media company during the boom, a defense ministry museum run by a lecherous ex-quartermaster--until he winds up surrounded by neurotic women, a teacher in a secondary school. He tries out therapist after therapist and can't figure out who is the butt of the joke. He has nephews and this makes him nervous. In fact, almost everything about family life makes him nervous--especially now that he's living at home again. He coins proverbs for living with lowered expectations and attempts a bestiary of his pathological parents, the mammals of the title. Riding its handbasket merrily to hell, veering now and then toward overwhelming lyricism. Mammals pieces together the portrait of modern society's Everyman. It establishes Pierre Merot as an extraordinary and delightful voice of international stature.

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Author:   Pierre Merot ,  Frank Wynne
Publisher:   Text Publishing Co
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
ISBN:  

9781920885731

ISBN 10:   1920885730
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   06 March 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available  
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