A Beautiful Truth (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Colin McAdam
- 2018, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Soho Press
- ISBN-10: 1616953160
- ISBN-13: 9781616953164
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2018
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"McAdam's language reaches into that mysterious place where a word ends and a feeling begins. A Beautiful Truth is a story about love and beauty and our dreams for our children and our inescapable loneliness. The characters, human and animal, are sad and honest and true. I could not put this novel down, and only when I finished it could I breathe again." —Kim Echlin, author of The Disappeared"Haunting. Heartbreaking. . . . It is a tale of empathy and honesty, deftly told and beautifully rendered." —Will Ferguson, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of 419
"The portrayal of chimpanzees as individuals with memories isn’t just a fictional device; the commonality of human and chimpanzee conceived here is achieved not by eliminating the traits that divide them but by illuminating the differences that unite them . . . With concise language, this heartbreaking tale of loneliness and remembrance reminds us that understanding is a process of growth and experience." —Library Journal, starred review
“[A] sure-handed and mature work, expertly weaving together shifts in voice and point of view and making use of a poetic language full of direct, sensual metaphors . . . . There are no platitudes about the power of love and our need to feel for one another, but rather an understanding of how sad and damaging a business love frequently is.” —The Toronto Star
“Packs a huge emotional punch. McAdam has effected a true leap of empathy, and in the process pulled off something often claimed to the point of cliché but very rarely achieved in fiction: He makes us see the world and ourselves in a new way.” —Montreal Gazette
"From joyous to cautious, from hopeful to purely devastating, A Beautiful Truth touches on so many different aspects of human emotion, it’s easy to forget that the perspective is often that of
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a chimpanzee." —The Winnipeg Review
“It’s to McAdam’s credit that Looee is such a living, breathing character, so rich in mind and trajectory that he elicits much empathy . . . Maybe one of the most striking aspects of the novel is what this juxtaposition illuminates. Whether animal or human, the basic patterns of everyday life, the repetition, the need for contact, affirmation and love, are the same.” —The National Post
"The crux of the story has to do with loneliness and empathy; people (and nonpeople) are to be marveled at for their ability and willingness to offer fellow creatures the balms of love, compassion and friendship, and McAdam doesn't flinch from the workings of cruelty and brutality, either. There's daring, and some pleasure, in the switches of point of view and especially in McAdam's effort to come up with a subtle, sensitive way to inhabit the chimpanzees and approximate their version of English idiom." —Kirkus Reviews
“McAdam has a poetic, impressionistic style, and a sense of humour, and the resulting fantasy is convincing and strangely melancholy.” —The Globe and Mail
"[A] gut punch of a novel … that’s going to get a lot of people talking. And crying." —Toronto Life
"A Beautiful Truth is an unsettling fictional meditation on evolution, altruism and empathy, revealing just how little separates humankind from animals." —We Love This Book
“It’s to McAdam’s credit that Looee is such a living, breathing character, so rich in mind and trajectory that he elicits much empathy . . . Maybe one of the most striking aspects of the novel is what this juxtaposition illuminates. Whether animal or human, the basic patterns of everyday life, the repetition, the need for contact, affirmation and love, are the same.” —The National Post
"The crux of the story has to do with loneliness and empathy; people (and nonpeople) are to be marveled at for their ability and willingness to offer fellow creatures the balms of love, compassion and friendship, and McAdam doesn't flinch from the workings of cruelty and brutality, either. There's daring, and some pleasure, in the switches of point of view and especially in McAdam's effort to come up with a subtle, sensitive way to inhabit the chimpanzees and approximate their version of English idiom." —Kirkus Reviews
“McAdam has a poetic, impressionistic style, and a sense of humour, and the resulting fantasy is convincing and strangely melancholy.” —The Globe and Mail
"[A] gut punch of a novel … that’s going to get a lot of people talking. And crying." —Toronto Life
"A Beautiful Truth is an unsettling fictional meditation on evolution, altruism and empathy, revealing just how little separates humankind from animals." —We Love This Book
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