Hot Animal Love

by Bradfield, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780786715763
• ISBN10: 0786715766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-16
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

Summary

Scott Bradfield's newest collection, Hot Animal Love, reads as if Raymond Carver penned Charlotte's Web though for the kids this collection is surely not. Bradfield's witty, sardonic prose is brilliantly on display as the harsh emotional realities of contemporary life exemplified by the basic instincts of love and hate are played out across all facets of the animal kingdom. From a duck struggling to gain academic tenure and a penguin trying to drink himself to death, to personal ads for lonely canines, and the familiar antics of those poor, pitiful, humans themselves, Bradfield strips bare the very essence of human behavior and asks us to consider who the real beasts are the results are both hilarious and profoundly moving.

Author Biography

Scott Bradfield is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Angry Duck	1	(16)
Men and Women in Love	17	(12)
Dazzle Redux	29	(16)
Penguins for Lunch	45	(30)
The Reflection Once Removed	75	(16)
Doggy Love	91	(12)
Goldilocks Tells All	103	(12)
Queen of the Apocalypse	115	(14)
The Devil Disinvests	129	(6)
Dazzle's Inferno	135	(24)
Heaven Sent	159	(10)
The Anti Santa	169	(14)
Paradise	183