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The Pet Thief
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ISBN10: 1573661716
ISBN13: 9781573661713
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: Mar 11 2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781573661713
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: Mar 11 2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind's inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world. When scientists, the government, and venture capitalists conspire to hybridize humans with animals-cats, specifically-for organ harvesting, drug testing, and military applications, the experiment is an irredeemable failure, producing human-like beings with uncanny abilities who are nonetheless fundamentally defective.
Oboy and his mentor/tormentor Freda are two wayward hybrids, cat people, who have escaped with others to the depths of a rundown European city being leveled for reconstruction. They are members of a street gang led by an ominous leader called Swan.
Oboy is unable to think or speak except in mimicry, but he is a physical savant, which serves Freda's mission. Enraged at what has been done to her, Freda wants to rescue every pet she can. When Oboy returns with a human baby after his first solo outing, their world and the truths of their existence come unraveled.
Oboy is unable to think or speak except in mimicry, but he is a physical savant, which serves Freda's mission. Enraged at what has been done to her, Freda wants to rescue every pet she can. When Oboy returns with a human baby after his first solo outing, their world and the truths of their existence come unraveled.
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