It's Bruno's distinct voice, more than debating points, that wins us over. One need only read a few pages to be swept up by the grandeur of Hale's ebullient prose. This chimp not only speaks English, he's as sensitive and charming, as brilliant and learned, as any human alive.
(When the pair do consummate, he probes her in disbelief, as "Caravaggio's Thomas the Doubter does to the wound of the resurrected Christ.") The lyrical flourishes can become theatrical, and, toward the end, the narrative gets baggy, but Hale's relish for his subject, and his subject's relish for language, never flags.", One very evolved human, Benjamin Hale has evoked, in his first novel, the miracle of Bruno Littlemore, the world's first talking chimpanzee. He also becomes a lover-but the story doesn't stray into bestiality. Along the way, Bruno becomes an experimental test subject, an Expressionist painter, a Shakespearean actor, and a murderer. His hyperallusive, Nabokovian confession, dictated to an amanuensis, is the tale of "a first-generation immigrant to the human species," encompassing Milton, Whitman, Darwin, Diogenes, and Kafka. For all its apparent unorthodoxy, Bruno Littlemore is above all a fascinating narrative, a work whose aesthetic allegiances place it squarely among the likes of Bellow and Nabokov., "Hale's exuberant dbut is the bildungsroman of Bruno, a chimp born in a zoo who forsakes his animalhood and ends up, hairless and human-nosed, imprisoned for a crime of passion. Its premise and execution are as jarring as they are beguiling, and provide Hale with the point of departure for asking all the relevant questions: questions about language, animality, memory, love and belonging. it throbs with energy and boils with passion as it expresses a dark vision of our essential nature that strikes uncomfortably home., The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore is a smart, expansive novel of the traditional type. (When the pair do consummate, he probes her in disbelief, as "Caravaggio's Thomas the Doubter does to the wound of the resurrected Christ.") The lyrical flourishes can become theatrical, and, toward the end, the narrative gets baggy, but Hale's relish for his subject, and his subject's relish for language, never flags.", Ambitious.
"Hale's exuberant d but is the bildungsroman of Bruno, a chimp born in a zoo who forsakes his animalhood and ends up, hairless and human-nosed, imprisoned for a crime of passion.
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