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008			180702s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9781984877628
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100	1		_aStern, Lindsay _996202
245	1	4	_aStudy of animal languages
260			_aNew York _bViking _c2019
300			_a229 p. _billustrations _c22 cm
500			_a"A novel"--Dust jacket.
520			_a"Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is young and beautiful, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with the arrival of the college's dashing but insufferable new writer-in-residence, whose novel Prue always seems to be reading? Into this delicate moment barrels Ivan's unstable father-in-law, Frank, in town to hear Prue deliver a lecture on birdsong that is set to cement her tenure application. But the talk doesn't go as planned, unleashing a series of crises that force Ivan to finally confront the problems in his marriage, and to begin to fight - at last - for what he holds dear. A dazzlingly insightful and entertaining novel about the limitations of language, the fragility of love, and the ways we misunderstand each other and ourselves, The Study of Animal Languages marks the debut of a brilliant new voice in fiction"--
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh _934933
650		7	_aFICTION / Family Life. _2bisacsh _992519
650		7	_aFICTION / Humorous. _2bisacsh _965912
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aStern, Lindsay, author. _tStudy of animal languages _dNew York, New York : Viking, [2019] _z9780525557449 _w(DLC) 2018032065
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