9780692689288

Animal Magnet

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780692689288

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Told from numerous and at times oblique perspectives, while using various literary forms and styles, this unusual family saga begins with the forbidden love of a manor tutor and lunatic scullery maid. The illegitimate line begun by Péter Montgolfier and Theresa Seyfert is, from beginning to end, beset by hardship, scandal, and shame. Spanning centuries and continents, the story jumps generationally if erratically down the family tree, beginning in the eighteenth century in the Kingdom of Hungary with Péter and Theresa and ending more than two centuries years later in a futuristic L.A. with controversial performance artist Vic Ray. Along the way, the reader meets an unforgettable cast of characters: Ernst Seyfert, footman and fratricide; Georges d'Aubigne, suicidal playwright and républicain; Joseph Vasser, bigamist and author of the Bible II; and Jesus Ramos, the Dog-faced Boy; to name a few. Ultimately, Animal Magnet probes the notion of humanness, human identity, and humanity. With unflinching honesty, the novel poses the disconcerting question, "Are we more human than animal, or more animal than human?"

ISBN-13

9780692689288

ISBN-10

0692689281

Weight

0.59 Pounds

Dimensions

5.25 x 0.58 x 8.00 In

List Price

$14.95

Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Publisher

Run Amok Books

Published On

2015-07-01



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