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To be honest, I bought this book because I was at this year's Writers' Trust Awards ceremony where Colin McAdam tearfully accept the Rogers' Prize. He was human, humble and unscripted on stage. I don't think he expected to win. He cried through his speech and I wanted to cry with him.
McAdam has written an unsentimental book about what it means to be human, to be a chimp, to be an animal. What it means to form relationships, to be betrayed, to lose love. It's poignant and lovely and is full of in ...more
McAdam has written an unsentimental book about what it means to be human, to be a chimp, to be an animal. What it means to form relationships, to be betrayed, to lose love. It's poignant and lovely and is full of in ...more
Aug 11, 2013
Beverly
marked it as to-read
Nov 24, 2013
Alyson Zikmund
marked it as to-read
