"Stylish, imaginative, poignant, and hugely unsettling."--The
Australian
"Goldsworthy's greatest achievement. . . . Brave, brilliant, as
intellectually challenging as it is playful, it is testament to a
restless and unpredictable imagination."--James Bradley
J.J. is back living at home, unemployed and drifting after a messy
divorce. Then he is offered a job teaching Sign to Eliza. His new pupil
is smart, sensitive, attractive--and a gorilla recently liberated from a
medical research laboratory by animal rights activists.
First published in 1995, the third novel by the acclaimed writer Peter
Goldsworthy is unique in Australian literature: a dazzling, moving story
about scientific experimentation and ethics, language, and love.