![]() Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. ![]() Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants. ![]() Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil “An insightful and detailed look at the complex life of a zoo and its denizens, both animal and human.” Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail.” Tom French did in this book what he always does. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant’s, and a primate’s, and on and on. ![]() “This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. ![]()
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