Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: book for little B of O M C

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This is the book chosen for the Little Book of the Odd Month Club ,  
which we will discuss on the last Tuesday of May:

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

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> Summary
> The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for  
> truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking  
> for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned  
> office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a  
> slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am  
> the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense  
> wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has  
> ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the  
> lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is  
> still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make  
> the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from  
> within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a  
> higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has  
> ever imagined?
> Author Notes & Sketches
> Daniel Quinn was born in 1935 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He  
> graduated from Creighton Prep and attended St. Louis University, the  
> University of Vienna and Loyola University of Chicago. Quinn worked  
> in educational and consumer publishing, holding editorial positions  
> with the American Peoples Encyclopedia, the Greater Cleveland  
> Mathematics Program, the Encyclopedia Britannica Educational  
> Corporation, Fuller and Dees Publishing and the Society for Visual  
> Education. He is best known for his award-winning novel Ishmael  
> (1992), which is about a gorilla able to telepathically communicate,  
> but he has written other novels as well as short fiction. (Bowker  
> Author Biography)