Talking Animals av Joni Murphy

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<p><b>"Joni Murphy¿s inventive and beautiful allegory depicts a city enmeshed in climate collapse, blinded to the signs of its imminent destruction by petty hatreds and monstrous greed: that is, the world we are living in now. <i>Talking Animals</i> is an Orwellian tale of totalitarianism in action, but the animals on this farm are much cuter, and they make better puns." ¿Chris Kraus, author of <i>I Love Dick </i>and <i>After Kathy Acker</i><br></b><br><b>A fable for our times, Joni Murphy¿s </b><i><b>Talking Animals</b></i><b> takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom.</b><br><br>It¿s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor. Sea creatures are viewed with fear and disgust and there¿s chatter about building a wall to keep them out.<br><br>Alfonzo is a mo