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Ape House

Ape House

by SaraGruen (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

    $3.28

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but animals she gets - especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans ...until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what's really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and 'liberating' the apes, John's human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he'll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show, Ape House, featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest - and unlikeliest - phenomenon in the history of modern media. Ape House delivers great entertainment, but it also opens the animal world to us in ways few novels have done, securing Sara Gruen's place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Two Roads
Published: 17 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 1444716018
ISBN 13: 9781444716016

Media Reviews
'DON'T MISS YOUR BUS STOP ... reading this week's talking-point book, Ape House by Water for Elephants author Sara Gruen. It's a funny, provocative lampoon of pop culture, about a group of sign-language-speaking bonobo monkeys who are liberated from a science lab, only to wind up on a reality TV show.' -- Grazia 'Ape House is gripping, emotionally exhilarating and, by a large margin, the best novel I've read in the past 12 months. Or perhaps 24... A twisting pacy plot ... vivid page-turner ... mining the same literary vein as Jodi Picoult and TC Boyle whose strong, conflicted characters and ethically charged plots deliver brilliant but challenging fiction.' -- James Urquhart, Independend 'If you love animals like I do, it's a must read.' -- Ellen DeGeneres, host of the Ellen Show 'had me instantly enraptured' -- Dallas Morning News 20100912 'Gruen's astute, wildly entertaining tale of interspecies connection is a novel of verve and conscience - the fate of the bonobos is a brilliantly satirical surprise.' -- Booklist (starred review) 20100912 'It is a page-turner written with flair, imagination and a sharp sense of irony.' -- Globe and Mail 20100910 'Very, very few novels can change the way you look at the world around you. This one does.' -- Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife 20100910 'Consider reality TV, meth labs, over-the-top animal-rights activists, Botox, tabloids and Internet diatribes, and you, too, might come to the conclusion: People should be more like animals. Sara Gruen's entertaining, enlightening new novel will certainly leave you thinking so.' -- Miami Herald 20100905 'Has the dramatic tension of a crime thriller... Twists and turns, lies, and treachery abound in this funny, clever, and perceptive story.' -- Library Journal (starred review) 20100905 'Ape House is difficult to put down, filled as it is with genuine hilarity and heartbreak.' -- Toronto Star 20101002 'The biggest accomplishment of Ape House is that it brings bonobos to life. The writing is effortless, as though Gruen sat down and wrote the book in one breezy afternoon.' -- Vanessa Woods, New Scentist 20100910 'Gruen delivers a tale that's full of heart, hope, and compelling questions about who we really are.' -- Redbook 20100910 'Propulsive... Gruen writes with the commercial breathlessness of a cozier Dan Brown.' -- Entertainment Weekly 20100910 'Ape House is a moving account of a close bond between human and ape - and human and human too.' -- Take a Break (Fiction Feast) 20100910 'Sara Gruen has the double gift of writing colourful page-turners and researching off-beat subjects with broad appeal... Gruen writes about her animal characters with energy and empathy.' -- Financial Times 20100910 'enlightening and believable' -- Guardian 20100910 'Gruen writes about her animal characters with energy and empathy... [she] has a lovely, noticing eye. Fron tiny silver flecks drifting off champagne cork foil, to a dogbowl sliding away from a rescued pit bill, there is plenty of surface detail to detain the reader.' -- Financial Times 20100910
Author Bio
Sara Gruen is the author of the award-winning, #1 bestselling novel Water for Elephants, as well as the bestseller Riding Lessons and Flying Changes. She lives in Western North Carolina, with her family, four cats, two dogs, two horses, and a goat. www.saragruen.com www.apehouse.tv http://www.greatapetrust.org/media-center/news-releases/sara-gruen-s-novel-will-help-secure-great-ape-trust-s-place-in-ape-language-history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSIXpgZniC0&feature=youtu.be