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Any Small Thing Can Save You
Christina Adam. BlueHen Books: 2001 (hardback). ISBN: 0399149139. 223 pages.
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How much for that bestiary in the window? Well, friends, we're glad you asked.
Because you can get an entire alphabet zoo-ful of stories for the price of just one little book. Don't worry--it's nothing
illicit or illegal. We don't encounter too many bestiaries these days, but once upon a time, long ago, such stories were as
common as grownups without teeth. The bestiary, a moral and allegorical tale that focused on the behaviors of uncommon and
often imaginary animals, was all the rage in the medieval world. We're counting on you to ensure that this stunning
collection of tales by Christina Adam will bring this ancient genre back in vogue. The animals in Adam's book are generally
those of the more ordinary sort: asps, bats, cats, doves, etc. But for the characters in Adam's stories, their often
unexpected encounters with these animals provide flashes of insight into the most complicated aspects of their own needs
and desires. Together, the twenty-six vignettes that make up this book (and the animals, A through Z) create a totally
unique reading experience. Not to overpun, but this little beauty of a book sneaks up on you, in a really good way. This
seems like just the right sort of book to unstick a book group stuck in a rut of the same old, same old.
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