**From *New Yorker* contributor and the Thurber Prize-winning author of *Truth in Advertising* comes a wry yet tenderhearted look at how one man's public fall from grace leads him back to his family, and back to the man he used to be.** It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time agai
Talk to Me
β Scribed by T. C. Boyle
- Book ID
- 112017201
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781526630032
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human?
Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show circuit with an unusual protΓ©gΓ© in tow: a chimp by the name of Sam. Sam lives in Guy's apartment, wears diapers and neckties, devours pizza and Macdonalds - and, through Guy's careful training, can communicate through sign language.
But living with Sam is wreaking havoc on Guy's personal life, and when shy, meek undergraduate Aimee Villard volunteers to take on babysitting for him, he can't believe his luck. Aimee and Sam have an immediate rapport, and before Guy knows it she's moved in, proudly devoting herself to Sam's care and Guy's project.
Aimee has never known purpose and happiness like this; but when Guy's funding is imperilled, and Sam is taken away by the sinister Moncrief, her world falls...
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