Jennie

Name: Jennie
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9781423386322

Author: Douglas Preston

Narrator: Anonymous

Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/15/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Douglas Preston's Jennie, based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George, is the celebrated novel that was made into the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project. Translated into many languages, Jennie became a worldwide bestselling sensation. On a research trip to West Africa, Dr. Hugo Archibald of the Boston Museum of Natural History encounters an orphaned baby chimpanzee. Archibald decides to bring the ape, whom he names Jennie, back to Boston and raise her alongside his own two young children as a kind of scientific experiment. Jennie captures the hearts of everyone she encounters. She believes herself to be a human being. She does almost everything a human child can, from riding a tricycle to fighting over the television with her siblings to communicating in American Sign Language.Told from shifting points of view of those closest to Jennie, this heartwarming and bittersweet novel forces us to take a closer look at the species that shares 98 percent of our DNA and ask ourselves the question: What does it really mean to be human?

About Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston, who worked for several years in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction works Dinosaurs in the Attic and Cities of Gold, and the novel, Jennie. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tanja on October 08, 2012

Only now at the end of the book did I come to realize that this book is only partly based on reality and that all the characters were fiction. Somewhat disappointing, but considering the works of non-fiction I have read on chimpanzees, it's not too worrisome. Actually, I should have realized - had t......more

Goodreads review by Peacegal on November 24, 2020

4.5 stars -- The mid-20th century enthusiasm for attempting to socialize chimpanzees and other great apes in human family settings has inspired multiple novels, many of them very good. JENNIE is a well-written and heartrending story of an infant chimp who is raised by a middle-class American family i......more

Goodreads review by Cyssah on November 20, 2013

I'm not a fan of books which tell stories about animals lives, but since it was a gift I decided to give it a chance. I don't regret! I found the story so fascinating that I also watched the movie. Of course the movie tells only part of Jennie's story. This story is a little monotonous at the beginni......more

Goodreads review by Angelique on November 27, 2012

This book made me cry in different areas of the story especially the ending. The story is depressing, insightful, compelling, humorous and heartbreaking. The book is about Jennie, a chimpanzee, who is raised as a child in Boston. She lives with Professor Hugo Archilbald, who found her, his wife and......more

Goodreads review by itchy on August 07, 2016

very moving......more