BEA Editor's Buzz Panel: Seriously, did anybody think they'd get copy above the monkey-on-girl sex book?
From PW's take on the BEA Editor's Buzz panel yesterday:
Emma Donoghue’s Room (Little Brown), about a boy who's grown up as a captive in a room with his mother, who was kidnapped years before.
Bad Science (FSG), already a U.K. bestseller from author-physician Ben Goldacre, about a South African vitamin entrepreneur who was selling vitamins to treat AIDS.
The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer (Scribner), Siddhartha Mukherjee's epic history of the disease and view toward the future of treatment.
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One of the six buzz books flogged has a three-page sex scene between a talking monkey and a woman. “It’s not bestiality,” said Cary Goldstein, the book’s editor at Twelve, “It’s love.”Queued up in line to be ignored in favor of monkey sex:
The book is The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale’s debut, and Goldstein said he loves the story, that of a chimpanzee who learns to talk, falls in love with a primatologist and eventually becomes a murderer. Why not? “It’s big, loud, abrasive, witty, earnest, and accomplished,” Goldstein said.
Emma Donoghue’s Room (Little Brown), about a boy who's grown up as a captive in a room with his mother, who was kidnapped years before.
Bad Science (FSG), already a U.K. bestseller from author-physician Ben Goldacre, about a South African vitamin entrepreneur who was selling vitamins to treat AIDS.
The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer (Scribner), Siddhartha Mukherjee's epic history of the disease and view toward the future of treatment.
Read the rest here.
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Oh, and is it just me, or did that conjure up images from Planet of the Apes? Now THAT's love.
But,Hale's mastery of language and the intriging story enchanted me. By the time the chimp, Bruno, has a sexual relationship with a woman you will love the characters. Certainly it is shocking, but the love between the chimp, who really evolves into a human, is believable. It really isn't beastiality, it's love. This book is now one of my all-time favorites.