9780316536158-0316536156-Enter the Aardvark

Enter the Aardvark

ISBN-13: 9780316536158
ISBN-10: 0316536156
Edition: First Edition
Author: Jessica Anthony
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780316536158
ISBN-10: 0316536156
Edition: First Edition
Author: Jessica Anthony
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover 192 pages

Summary

Enter the Aardvark (ISBN-13: 9780316536158 and ISBN-10: 0316536156), written by authors Jessica Anthony, was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Enter the Aardvark (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.46.

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A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a rip-roaring journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful, and very much of the moment" (Esquire) novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences.

It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark.

This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, D.C., where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England--where we meet Titus Downing, the taxidermist who stuffed the aardvark, and Richard Ostlet, the naturalist who hunted her. Our present world, we begin to see, has been shaped in profound and disturbing ways by the secret that binds these men.

At once a ghost story, a love story, and a stunningly prescient political satire, Enter the Aardvark confronts the consequences of repressed male love meeting oppressive male power, and is a searing condemnation of our current American blindness. It is also that rarest of creatures: a work of art so utterly original and masterfully built that it seems to have spring fully formed from its visionary maker's head.

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