![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The concepts are controversial, imaginative. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail. ![]() The language is fluid, specific, and profound. And then there’s his smell, like Lydia’s smell, “that ineffably gorgeous smell simmering off her skin-it was entirely beyond my previous olfactory experience, I didn’t know what to make of it. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore is nothing short of a masterpiece. He has one stray whisker on his right cheek that he often forgets to shave. by Benjamin Hale (Twelve 25.99) FebruHale’s exuberant dbut is the bildungsroman of Bruno, a chimp born in a zoo who forsakes his animalhood. Who hasn’t catalogued, through a wondrous, lovesick haze, their partner’s most banal characteristics and traits? My husband flicks the edge of his thumbnail against the pad of his index finger when he’s anxious. The results: in a one-hour period, Lydia put her glasses on thirty-one times and removed them thirty-two, and she tucked the wisp or wisps of hair behind her ear or ears a total of fifty-three times. Once, in fact-this was much later, when I was learning my numbers-I had briefly become obsessed with counting things, and I counted the number of times Lydia took her glasses off and put them on again during an hour of watching her at work, and then I counted the number of times she tucked the wisps of hair behind her ears. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore By Benjamin Hale (Twelve 578 pages 25. ![]()
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