Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti

Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti

A zoo worker, cautiously washing down Marysue the elephant, thinks of the strange, grim stories his co-workers have told him about their lives. Giraffes in another zoo demand better living conditions and stage a mock group suicide to attract public notice. A girl escapes her repressive finishing school by running off with her lover to the African jungle but takes longer to give the slip to the private detectives hired by her father. Hannah Tinti s debut collection combines the virtues of traditional story-telling with utter freshness and modernity. Snake or dog, buffalo or turkey, the animals in her brilliant, darkly comic stories are never cute, as they hold up a disturbing mirror to the human beings around them.

While Tinti writes well about things that slither and crawl, what's most impressive is her understanding of human loneliness These stories resonate with one mournful grace-note after another.. Tinti delivers with poise uncommon among first-time writers. Like Edgar Allan Poe and Patricia Highsmith, [she] has a brilliant feel for the uncanny - Scotland on Sunday

[A] lovely and exotic zoo of short stories... Funny, off the wall, economical and bright with inventive language... This is my advice to reluctant short story readers: buy this collection for the bus into town, for the 20-minute train journey, for the five minutes before you go to sleep at night, and you will have animal fun all day and in your dreams at night - Leeds Guide

Tinti can hook a reader with a first sentence - New York Metro

Children and beasts of all sorts dominate Hannah Tinti's first book... a quirky, often disturbing collection. Hers is a world where things are jarringly out of kilter, a world of transformation, casual violence and twisted feelings... Animals and humans alike, Tinti gets under their skin - Daily Mail (Lee Langley)

Don't be deceived by the animals prancing about the cover of this short-story collection. There are dark, dark tales within... Tinti laces her stories with a fine thread of black humour... Refreshingly original, bold and accomplished - Glasgow Herald

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Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and earned her M.A. from New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she studied under E.L. Doctorow. She has been awarded residency fellowships by, among others, the New York State Writers Institute, and is currently the editor of 'One Story' magazine.

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ISBN 13	9780755307449
ISBN 10	0755307445
Title	Animal Crackers
Author	Hannah Tinti
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2004-03-01
Number of pages	256
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