Love in Infant Monkeys, Lydia Millet
Love in Infant Monkeys, Lydia Millet
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Love in Infant Monkeys

Author: Lydia Millet

Narrator: Michael Brusasco, Hillary Huber, Pete Cross, Cady Zuckerman

Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/13/2021


Synopsis

Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants?all have shared spotlights and tabloid headlines with celebrities such as Sharon Stone, Thomas Edison, and David Hasselhoff. In this critically acclaimed collection, Lydia Millet hilariously tweaks these unholy communions to run a stake through the heart of our fascination with famous people and pop culture in wildly inventive stories that “evoke the spectrum of human feeling and also its limits” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). While in so much fiction animals exist as symbols of good and evil or as author stand-ins, they represent nothing but themselves in Millet's ruthlessly lucid prose. Implacable in their actions, the animals in Millet’s spiraling fictional riffs and flounces show up their humans as bloated with foolishness yet curiously vulnerable, as in a tour-de-force, Kabbalah-infused interior monologue by Madonna after she shoots a pheasant on her Scottish estate. Millet treads newly imaginative territory with these charismatic tales.

About Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet is the PEN Award-winning author of eleven works of literary fiction, including Sweet Lamb of Heaven and Magnificence, which have been New York Times Notables and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. She lives in Arizona.

About Michael Brusasco

Michael Brusasco is an actor and audiobook narrator known for Going Down, Book of Rules, and Roger, the Chicken.

About Hillary Huber

"Hillary has recorded close to 700 audiobooks spanning many genres.  She is a multiple Audie Award finalist, multiple Earphone Award winner, Voice Arts Awards winner and one of Audiofile Magazine's best voices.  Hillary has a BA in English Literature and is a voracious reader and listener.  Likes: yoga, hip hop dancing, baking sourdough, bourbon. Dislikes: liver. Raised in conservative Connecticut and hippy Hawaii, Hillary now splits her time between Santa Monica and New York.   Most of that time is in a 4x4 padded room. Er...booth. Her superpower is reciting the alphabet backwards. Created with WordToHTML.net trial."

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

About Cady Zuckerman

Cady Zuckerman is an audiobook narrator, an actress, and a voice coach located in Los Angeles. A lover of language and storytelling, she works as a teaching artist for the Actors' Gang Prison Project and Education program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on January 22, 2010

One of the reasons that I frequently hate on contemporary fiction is that anything high-concept tends to turn me off. A clever and/or quirky conceit does not guarantee that a work of fiction will be well-written, and I frequently find the gimick being used to be a distraction if the writing is, in f......more

Goodreads review by Katerina on May 02, 2023

The most controversial five stars. I recognize its drawbacks; however, this book startled and shook me while being quite routinely realistic; it doesn’t happen very often. Also, the book works really well as a collection: all texts are arranged with precision and purpose, complimenting each other in......more

Goodreads review by Faiza on February 16, 2017

★★★☆☆ (3/5) The universe of Lydia Millet’s “Love in Infant Monkeys” is comprised of two kinds of people: those who associate themselves with animals and extend all the warmth and compassion they can muster towards them, and those who inflict unimaginable horrors on the animals in order to assert domi......more

Goodreads review by Natalia on June 06, 2023

Definitely 5 stars, but still need to think it through. So many ideas packed into a compact collection. Each story has a different theme, though they are united by the global idea of interaction between a human and an animal. I love almost every story, they are unusual, smart, sometimes weird, but ve......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 02, 2022

This book has some really interesting short stories, each of which pair an animal with a celebrity for surprising little snippets. They are funny and quirky and thought-provoking. I can see why this one was a Pulitzer runnerup!......more