Ape House is a worthy continuation of Gruen's exploring the relationship between humans and animals--both positive and negative. Where Water for Elephants taps into a bygone era--traveling circuses--Ape House explores contemporary issues of the use of great apes in research--positively, e.g. teaching them sign language--and negatively, e.g. making them the "stars" of a so-called reality show/5(). Sara Gruen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Water for Elephants, Ape House, Riding Lessons, and Flying Changes. Her latest book At . Search for: The Sara Gruen Collection Water for Elephants - At the Waters Edge - Ape House. June 27th, by comut.
Fiction review: 'Ape House' by Sara Gruen. Updated: Jan. 10, , p.m. | Published: Sep. 18, , a.m. By Special to The Oregonian View full size. In Sara Gruen's mega-best-seller. Sara Gruen on Ape House. Right before I went on tour for Water for Elephants, my mother sent me an email about a place in Des Moines, Iowa, that was studying language acquisition and cognition in great apes.I had been fascinated by human-ape discourse ever since I first heard about Koko the gorilla (which was longer ago than I care to admit) so I spent close to a day poking around the Great. By Leah Hager Cohen. Sept. 3, Early in Sara Gruen's new novel, "Ape House," one of the characters gives a mini-lesson on American Sign Language, which, she instructs, "is not simply.
Ape House is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her. Ape House delivers great entertainment, but it also opens the animal world to us in ways few novels have done, securing Sara Gruen's place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before. Ape House is a worthy continuation of Gruen's exploring the relationship between humans and animals--both positive and negative. Where Water for Elephants taps into a bygone era--traveling circuses--Ape House explores contemporary issues of the use of great apes in research--positively, e.g. teaching them sign language--and negatively, e.g. making them the "stars" of a so-called reality show.
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