Animal Heart : A Novel

by Peterson, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9781578051083
• ISBN10: 1578051088
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

When an eerie mass stranding of whales and dolphins takes place along the mist-shrouded Oregon coast, forensic wildlife pathologist Isabel Spinner and her friend and coworker Marian Windhorse Gray covertly investigate this disaster as a crime against wildlife. For years, Isabel has kept plenty of emotional distance between herself and other humans while devoting herself to easing the suffering of animals. But when Isabel meets Marshall McGreggor, an undersea photographer whose recent transplant has him delving into the mystery surrounding his new heart, the two find themselves making surprising decisions that will forever change their lives. In this, her fourth, novel, renowned author Brenda Peterson offers a captivating love story of people whose compassion for animals compels them into extraordinary acts of heroism. Based on cutting-edge science, this powerful page-turner tackles such timely and troubling issues as low-frequency active sonar and animal experimentation and forewarns of a future of Dead Zone oceans, disappearing species, and a world with creatures whose DNA boundaries have been genetically blurred. At once prescient and poignant,Animal Heartis a haunting, highly original story of the deep bonds between humans and animals--and of our inevitably linked fates.

Author Biography

Brenda Peterson is an acclaimed novelist and nature writer whose last novel, Duck and Cover, was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Her nonfiction works include Nature and Other Mothers, Singing to the Sound, Sister Stories, Living by Water, and a memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals. Peterson lives in Seattle

Table of Contents

Kiwanda Beach Watch	15	(27)
Seal-Sitting	27	(21)
Eavesdropping	48	(21)
Underwater Volcano	69	(13)
Animal Heart	82	(22)
The Dead Zone	104	(20)
Homecoming	124	(15)
Stranding	139	(17)
Perfect Empathic Pair	156	(18)
A Dying Art	174	(21)
Blue Dragon Rising from the Sea	195	(16)
Deaf, at Last Listening	211	(12)
Aquatic Apes	223	(19)
Room 66X	242	(11)
Family Cottage	253	(18)
Silkie's Cave	271	(12)
Epilogue	283