Animal Crackers, Hannah Tinti
Animal Crackers, Hannah Tinti
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Animal Crackers
Stories

Author: Hannah Tinti

Narrator: Laural Merlington, Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in “Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus,” a headstrong young woman in Africa is lured by the freedom of the monkeys in the trees; in “Talk Turkey,” a boy has secret conversations with the turkeys on his friend’s family’s farm; in “Slim’s Last Ride,” a child plays chilling games with his pet rabbit; in “Gallus Gallus,” a pompous husband projects his anger at his wife onto her prized rooster. This fresh, inventive debut will introduce Hannah Tinti as one of the most gifted writers of her generation. Enter her world at your own risk, and you will come away bewitched.

About Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti’s work has been published in Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Story Quarterly, Sonora Review and is forthcoming in Epoch. She earned her M.A. from New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program and has received residency fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center and Hedgebrook. Hannah Tinti’s first book, a story collection called ANIMAL CRACKERS, was published by Dial Press in March 2004 and quickly went into a second printing. It was a runner up for the 2005 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. One of the stories (‘Home Sweet Home’) appeared in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2003.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruben on June 23, 2020

Psé. Algun fa riure. Molts són incòmodes. No cal llegir-lo…......more

Goodreads review by Robert on July 20, 2018

This collection ranges from humorous to horrifying, weird and wonderful.......more

Goodreads review by Editrix on June 08, 2010

I wanted to like this more than I did. I found the characters and stories flat and unappealing, and while I'm not terribly squeamish, some of the callous violence (especially toward animals) was repulsive and (at times) gratuitous. The only humorous bit was the list of demands from three giraffes to......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on February 26, 2016

Hannah Tinti's story collection is a rare beast: a mix of mild absurdity (unionized elephants, a grown man who refuses to tie his shoes) and reality that scrapes along the underside of your soul. Similarly, the animals in question are both literal and metaphorical. The rabbit a troubled boy throws o......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 01, 2010

With the exception of Amy Hempel, I don't think I've ever given five stars to a collection of short stories. Usually, there are too many misses for me to go above three stars. But there was something about Tinti's writing that allowed me to forgive/gloss over the shortcomings. These stories are bizar......more

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