Would you like to see this page in English? Click here.

 

ou
Ouvrez une session pour activer Commander en 1-Click.
 
 
D'autres produits offerts
13 neufs & d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 6.16
Vous en avez un à vendre? Vendez les vôtres ici
 
   
The Love Song of Monkey
 
Agrandissez cette image 
Partagez vos propres images client
Editeur: découvrez commment les clients peuvent feuilleter et chercher au coeur de ce livre.

The Love Song of Monkey (Paperback)

de Michael S. A. Graziano (Author)
4.0étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (1 évaluation de client)
Prix éditeur: CDN$ 15.50
Price: CDN$ 11.32 & se qualifie pour Livraison super-économique GRATUITE pour des commandes de plus de CDN$ 39. Détails
Vous économisez : CDN$ 4.18 (27%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Habituellement expédié sous 1 à 3 semaines.
Vendu et expédié par Amazon.ca.

8 neufs à partir de CDN$ 6.27 5 d'occasion à partir de CDN$ 6.16

Les détails du produit

Descriptions du produit

Product Description

"Neuroscientist and author Graziano has crafted a compelling fantasy based on a semi-plausible “what if.” Imaginative, intelligent narrative…Twin ideas of forgiveness and mercy twist through this strange, moving, patiently wrought novel, making for a trippy but charming read.”–Publishers Weekly

“An hilarious, dark, brittle take on post-modern medicine, love triangles, the dense emptiness of contemporary life, and the power of contemplative self-discovery. Part magic realism, part science fiction, part theater of the absurd, and part over-the-top, unrepentant spoof, this novel packs more into its few short pages than do most epic trilogies. Graziano has fabricated the rare kind of tale that the reader can honestly say ends much too quickly. Perfectly woven, self-enclosed, multifaceted . . . Kosinski’s Being There sprinkled with a strong dose of Frankenstein . . . the kind of simplicity that speaks volumes.”—Michael Mirolla, author of The Formal Logic of Emotion

“An amalgam of fairy tale, satire, science fiction, medical thriller, and soap opera. . . . It is difficult to fathom that a novel so brief can be so epic in scope. Inventive and deftly crafted, The Love Song of Monkey is a tale no reader will soon forget.”—Eric Linder, Yellow Umbrella Books, Chatham, Massachusetts

In a surreal exile on the floor of the Atlantic, a young man faces his own death and his wife’s infidelity. The Love Song of Monkey is a meditation on the simple, inexplicable, and lasting power of love, cast in the metaphor of a journey to the depths of the ocean floor. Precise and beautifully crafted, this modern fable is rich with humor and deep thought.

Michael S. A. Graziano, professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, is the author of the novella Hiding Places (New England Review), The Seclusion Zone (2007 fi nalist in the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition), and The Intelligent Movement Machine (2008, Oxford University Press).

About the Author

Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD, is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. He is the author of the novella Hiding Places (New England Review, 1997), the literary novel The Seclusion Zone (finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Category, 2007), and co-author of the popular science novel Hell Creek. His scientific articles have appeared in many journals, including Science

Associer des mots-clés à ce produit

 (De quoi s'agit-il ?)
Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris.
Vos mots-clés : Ajouter votre premier mot-clé
 
Voir les mots-clés les plus populaires
 

L'avis des consommateurs

1 Evaluation
5 étoiles:    (0)
4 étoiles:
 (1)
3 étoiles:    (0)
2 étoiles:    (0)
1 étoiles:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Évaluation du client type
4.0étoiles sur 5 (1 évaluation de client)
 
 
 
 
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
Commentaires client les plus utiles

 
4.0étoiles sur 5 Under the sea, Jui 5 2009
Par E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
(TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
What if you were utterly immortal and indestructible -- and cast into an airless void under the sea? Where would you go? What would you do?

The question is asked -- and answered -- by "The Love Song of Monkey," the deliriously dreamlike, darkly funny journey of a young man saved from death by extraordinary means. Michael SA Graziano's otherworldly novella successfully straddles the line between magical realism and sci-fi. And it has the oddest love story in many a year (hello, Venus!).

Dying of AIDS, Jonathan agrees to Dr. Kack's bizarre and painful new machine called the Kwark-Kwing, which will apparently make him physically perfect and indestructible.

But something goes wrong -- Jonathan is left alive but completely immobile, and Dr. Kack and his wife Kitty (who turn out to be having an affair) think he's dead. They dump him in the ocean, anchored by a statue of Venus... but he doesn't die. Instead he lingers for years under the sea, with only his placid thoughts streaming by him. Until one day when he discovers he can move again.

So begins his journey in the sea -- he lingers in the hulk of a sunken ship (with an equally immortal cat and mouse) along with his Venus, and sets out on a serene walking trip across the ocean floor. His wanderings even take him into the molten heart of the earth.... and then on an increasingly surreal return into the world he once knew. But what happened to the wife left behind?

"The Love Song of Monkey" is one of those books that glides seamlessly from one genre to the next -- from meditative inner journey to sci-fi, from magical-realism to a witty tragicomedy. Few authors can actually do this, and Graziano's work ends up feeling like a surrealist novel by an earlier Jonathan Lethem -- smart, subtle and weird.

What's more, he's able to effortlessly slip into a dreamlike series of adventures that few can wholeheartedly dream of without being distracted by reality. With a feeling of bemusement and a tone of minimalist poetry, we follow Jonathan as he is blown out of a volcano, becomes a museum exhibit, and wandering the alien terrain of the seas with all its wonders. And his invincibility serves as a source for occasional humour (such as when a shark tries to chew on him).

If there's a flaw, it's that Jonathan's post-museum adventures seem rather truncated -- it would have been nice to see a little more detail about how he feels in a new, strange life. But the haunting quality of his search for his wife Kitty -- despite her affair -- serves as something of a counterbalance.

The novel also addresses the strange way that immortality and indestructibility might affect the soul -- if we no longer had to fear death, pain and time's passage, where might we go and what might we think?

Jonathan goes through such a journey, going from a grumpy ill young man (and self-confessed "jerk" as Kitty later describes him) into a creature set apart from the everyday world... except for the iron Venus that anchors him to the earth, and speaks to him in his head. Since he can't be harmed, he views his surroundings and situations with mild bemusement and intellectual interest -- even his wife cheating on him or his mortal hand being burned off don't evoke strong emotion.

"The Love Song of Monkey" is a strange, eerie novella with a lovely style and a philosophical bent -- a thinking person's quick read.
Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles  
Ce commentaire vous a-t-il été utile ? Oui Non

Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
 
 
Rechercher uniquement sur les commentaires portant sur ce produit


Listmania!

Créer une liste thématique Listmania!

Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie

Chercher des articles semblables par sujet











c.-à-d., chaque book doit correspondre au sujet 1 ET au sujet 2 ET ...

Commentaires

Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?

Votre historique récent

 (En savoir plus)

Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent.