DESCENT OF MAN
T.C. Boyle
Penguin Books
Fiction
ISBN: 0140299947

Seventeen outrageously humorous short stories that illustrate the darker side of mankind. In Boyle's world failure comes with the territory, although the protagonists frequently don't understand the reason for it. A primate-center researcher becomes romantically involved with a chimpanzee, and Norse poet overcomes bard-block. These and other strange occurrences come together in this collection of satirical stores that brilliantly express just what the "evolution" of mankind has wrought.

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