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<p><b>"Joni Murphy’s inventive and beautiful allegory depicts a city enmeshed in climate collapse, blinded to the signs of its imminent destruction by petty hatreds and monstrous greed: that is, the world we are living in now. <i>Talking Animals</i> is an Orwellian tale of totalitarianism in action, but the animals on this farm are much cuter, and they make better puns." —Chris Kraus, author of <i>I Love Dick </i>and <i>After Kathy Acker</i> <br></b><br><b>A fable for our times, Joni Murphy’s </b><i><b>Talking Animals</b></i><b> takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom.</b><br><br>It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor. Sea creatures are viewed with fear and disgust and there’s chatter about building a wall to keep them out.<br><br>Alfonzo is a moody alpaca. His friend Mitchell is a sociable llama. They both work at City Hall, but their true passions are noise music and underground politics. Partly to meet girls, partly because the world mig

Author

Joni Murphy

Publisher

FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374721312