Zigman, Animal Husbandry.
Zigman, Animal Husbandry.
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Zigman, Laura. Animal Husbandry. First Edition. New York, The Dial Press, 1998. 14 x 21.5cm. 304 pages. Original quarter-clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Partial sunning to wrapper, otherwise excellent condition. Signed by the author on title page. When Jane, suddenly homeless after a break-up, reluctantly moves in with Eddie Alden, her swaggering, womanizing coworker, she finds herself in the belly of the beast itself—the alpha male—and discovers, too, that she’s not alone in the vast pasture of the brokenhearted. With a copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species in one hand and a notebook in the other, Jane sets up base camp at Eddie’s and begins her research—on Eddie’s bizarre chase and flee rituals, on the always unlucky pairings of her best friends, David and Joan, and on her own love affair with Ray—all in a desperate attempt to unlock the mysterious methods of the male animal. Soon Jane has stacks of theories and a budding career as a pseudonymous sexual behaviorist. But conclusions, of course, prove elusive as love itself, and nothing is as simple as it seems in this whip smart, hilariously funny, and wonderfully wise debut novel about men, women, and the strange taxonomy of the human heart. [From jacket notes]
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