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A Novel
HarperCollins
February 2007
On Sale: February 6, 2007
112 pages ISBN: 0061146129 EAN: 9780061146121 Hardcover
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Mr. Thundermug is the inventive, entertaining, and—against
all odds—poignant story of an animal who acquires the
ability to eloquently speak human language. Using his own
beautiful, eerie lithograph illustrations, Cornelius Medvei
places us in a vivid world that is both familiar and alien.
It's a world in which Mr. Thundermug and his family take up
occupancy in an abandoned apartment building. On the roof of
that building, Mr. Thundermug gazes at the heavens and
thinks deep thoughts while his wife picks bugs off him and
eats them. Understandably, he's somewhat confused by his
complex existence as a fluent member of human society who
has the essential nature of a more ancient species, but he
assimilates as best he can. His worlds inevitably collide,
and he is eventually brought to court for a petty crime and
asked to defend himself in impossible ways. Simultaneously playful and foreboding, Mr. Thundermug
announces the arrival of a bold and imaginative talent.
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