"Where do animal souls go when they die? Do animals even have souls?
Kierkegaard suggests not," Jeffrey Rawlings notes. "Something to bear in
mind while kissing your hound."
An assistant at an urban veterinary clinic, Jeffrey Rawlings has decided to
take a break from graduate studies and instead pulls nightshift at the
animal hospital while studying the modern philosophers - "from Kierkegaard
to Marx" - to no avail: wounded animals hound his existence. Jeffrey’s
hypochondriac mother may be dying of ovarian cancer, his money-hungry
sister needs bucks for her 40-year-old husband’s braces, and a heroin-
hooked runaway is set on his seduction. Meanwhile, the neighborhood
transvestite swears he is Billie Holiday raised from the dead. But the worst
comes when his perpetually indiscreet Uncle Raymond winds up getting
shot. Soon enough, Jeffrey learns, it’s not just the animals that need a cure.
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Genre: Literary Fiction
Format: Digital/Print
Length: 47K / 148 Pages
Rating: 18+
ISBN/EAN13: 098191988X / 9780981919881
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