Mammoth by Chris Flynn. Mammoth. by Chris Flynn. by Astrid Edwards •. May , no. E verything about Chris Flynn’s Mammoth – the characters, plot, and structure – should not work. But it does, and beautifully so. Mammoth is narrated by the fossilised remains of a 13,year-old extinct American Mammoth (Mammut americanum), who likes to be addressed as Mammut. Mammoth is the original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. · “Since so long ago, can we say that the animal has been looking at us?” the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, once pondered. Chris Flynn’s third novel, Mammoth, occasions such possibility. An original work – in both concerning the origins and constructing the uncanny – Mammoth brings to life a 13,year-old extinct American mastodon. Inside the basement of an auction house Author: Keyvan Allahyari.
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Book review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn. Humanity, you have been judged and found wanting. By a 13,year-old extinct mammoth fossil no less. While that revelation may be sobering, the good news is that the judgement is delivered by the extraordinarily imaginative novel, Mammoth by Chris Flynn, a book which takes the traditional anthropocentric view of the world, in which everything only has value in its relationship to people, and turns it wildly and with great joy, and yes, tragedy too, on. But Chris Flynn’s novel’s scope and ambition is much broader, and his highly original approach to considering the lessons of history, far more impactful. The bulk of the narrative is delivered from the sage perspective of Mammut, an extinct woolly mammoth. One instinctively feels for the plight of this character, both his and his species’ original demise and his more recent fossilized consciousness. The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in
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