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Playing Possum
Monsó, Susana (Author)
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£14.99
Expected Release Date: April 14, 2026
"A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year""A New Statesman Book of the Year""Playing Possum is an unexpected mix of witty and grisly, cerebral and earthy. Monsó doesn't so much answer questions about death as raise new ones, encouraging us to shed our reflexive anthropocentrism by paying close attention to what animals do, even when it fails to accord with human modes of behavior."---Jennifer Szalai, New York Times"Playing Possum identifies a new discipline: comparative thanatology, the study of 'how animals react to individuals who are dead or close to dying, the physiological processes th...ISBN (SKU)
9780691260778
Pages
264
Dimensions
198.37x128.52
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Published
14, April, 2026
Genres
Nature & Gardening
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