Rosinante's Sallies: Animal Fables for Adults

Title

en_US Rosinante's Sallies: Animal Fables for Adults

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US As Told to Sally Netzel

Creator

en_US Netzel, Sally See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Netzel, Liz

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:27Z

en_US 2012-05

en_US 2008

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 2008

Abstract

en_US I have read the first three of these animal stories and found them engaging. Yes, Rosinante turns out to be Don Quixote's old nag. The fascination here, as far as I can tell, lies in Netzel's ability to get into the animals' experience and to approach human experience as the animals would perceive it. Each story seems also to open up a good question. In the first story, Peaceful, a young eaglet, tries to convince his mother that there is a kind of ethics not about being the stronger, but she will not have it. The debate goes on even into the next generation. The second story reports a Virgin Birth by a Komodo Dragon, who starts to eat her young but is interrupted in the process. The Komodo Dragon offspring grow up, curious about family life; they see monkey parents interacting with each other and their children and press the questions, especially Why? The answers seem irrelevant to them, so they eat the mother monkey and several of her young. Then they start to eat each other. . . . The third story concerns an Armageddon for cats. It all takes place in the home of an old cat-collecting woman who has let things get out of hand. Now she faces a demand to disperse the cats she has collected. Instead, the old woman torches the house with herself inside it. Two highly refined cats, Patty Persian and Susie Siamese, are the last to leave and thank their lucky stars that they survive!

Identifier

en_US 9781436383738 (hardback)

en_US 7747 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83004

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Xlibris Corp

en_US Thorofare, NJ

Subject

en_US PS3564.E828 R67 2008 See all items with this value

en_US Sally Netzel See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole