Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Talk to Me
Talk to Me | T. C. Boyle
4 posts | 3 read | 2 to read
How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human? Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show circuit with an unusual protégé in tow: a chimp by the name of Sam. Sam lives in Guy's apartment, wears diapers and neckties, devours pizza and Macdonalds – and, through Guy's careful training, can communicate through sign language. But living with Sam is wreaking havoc on Guy's personal life, and when shy, meek undergraduate Aimee Villard volunteers to take on babysitting for him, he can't believe his luck. Aimee and Sam have an immediate rapport, and before Guy knows it she's moved in, proudly devoting herself to Sam's care and Guy's project. Aimee has never known purpose and happiness like this; but when Guy's funding is imperilled, and Sam is taken away by the sinister Moncrief, her world falls apart. Aimee discovers just how far she'll go to, and just what she'll risk, to be united with the chimp she's come to love so much.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
ReadingOver50
Talk to Me | T. C. Boyle
post image

Went to Solvang, CA over the weekend. Had to stop in The Book Loft Solvang and pick up a book. I chose Talk to Me by T C Boyle.

blurb
everfree7
Talk to Me | T. C. Boyle

Interested in this

review
vlwelser
Talk to Me | T. C. Boyle
post image
Pickpick

This is an interesting story of a chimp living with university researchers as part of a family unit. The study is about language but it's also about reasoning and the concept of personhood. Is a chimp brought up as a person just an animal or is there something more? But like all animal stories, this is unlikely to end well.

#BookSpinBingo square 19
@TheAromaofBooks

Pub date is 9/14/2021
#ARC #Netgalley

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3y
35 likes1 comment
review
Well-ReadNeck
Talk to Me | T. C. Boyle
post image
Mehso-so

I liked, but did not love, this one. Similar to other recent novels, for me. #ARC #Edelweiss