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Jennie / Douglas Preston.
- Title
- Jennie / Douglas Preston.
- Author
- Preston, Douglas J.
- Publication
- New York : Forge ; [Godalming : Distributed by Melia], 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | PS3566.R3982 J46 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 302 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "On a research trip to West Africa, Dr. Hugo Archibald of the Boston Museum of Natural History encounters an orphaned baby chimpanzee. Archibald decides to bring the ape, whom he names Jennie, back to Boston and raise her alongside his own two young children as a kind of scientific experiment. Jennie captures the hearts of everyone she encounters. She believes herself to be a human being. She does almost everything a human child can, from riding a tricycle to fighting over the television with her siblings to communicating in American Sign Language. Told from shifting points of view of those closest to Jennie, this heartwarming and bittersweet novel forces us to take a closer look at the species that shares 98 percent of our DNA and ask ourselves the question: What does it really mean to be human?" -- Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- novels.
- Fiction
- Novels
- Romans.
- Note
- Originally published: New York: St. Martin's, 1994; London: Andre Deutsch, 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-299).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0765315610 (pbk.)
- 9780765315618
- OCLC
- 62892085
- SCSB-11013042
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library