Jennie: A Novel
Apr 2007 · Forge Books
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A heartwarming and thought-provoking novel, Jennie tells the extraordinary tale of an orphaned chimpanzee who captures the hearts of everyone she meets.
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 and 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 bittersweet novel, which inspired the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project, forces us to take a closer look at the species that shares 98 percent of our DNA. It raises the question: What does it really mean to be human?
Celebrated author Douglas Preston's Jennie is based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George. Translated into many languages, this worldwide bestseller is a moving story that explores animal intelligence, communication, and the complex bond between humans and our closest living relatives.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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 and 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 bittersweet novel, which inspired the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project, forces us to take a closer look at the species that shares 98 percent of our DNA. It raises the question: What does it really mean to be human?
Celebrated author Douglas Preston's Jennie is based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George. Translated into many languages, this worldwide bestseller is a moving story that explores animal intelligence, communication, and the complex bond between humans and our closest living relatives.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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4.6
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August 17, 2017
Still thinking about Jennie. Going to read again. Right Now.
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October 20, 2014
Good read
About the author
Douglas Preston is the co-author with Lincoln Child of the celebrated Pendergast series of novels, including such best-selling titles as Fever Dream, The Book of the Dead, The Wheel of Darkness, and Relic, which became a number one box office hit movie. His solo novels include the New York Times bestsellers Impact, Blasphemy, The Codex, and Tyrannosaur Canyon. His nonfiction book The Monster of Florence is being made into a film starring George Clooney. Preston is an expert long-distance horseman, a member of the elite Long Riders Guild, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has travelled to remote parts of the world as an archaeological correspondent for The New Yorker. He also worked as an editor and writer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. Preston is the Co-president of International Thriller Writers, and serves on the Governing Council of the Authors Guild.
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