An Optimist In Hell by Stephen Spotte

by Stephen Spotte

What is it like to be a boy who turns into a dog-on the inside? To trade bodies with a dolphin? Be pinned in a box like an exotic butterfly by a mad collector? Stephen Spotte's background in science gives him a unique perspective in these unusual, sometimes hilarious stories, whose subject is often the thinness-and occasional permeability-of species boundaries. Spotte's beautifully observed characters live in an uneasy relationship with their world, and each other, those who remain unmatched at the back of life's sock drawer.

Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Stephen Spotte, a marine scientist born and raised in West Virginia, is the author of 23 books including seven works of fiction and two memoirs. Spotte has also published more than 80 papers on marine biology, ocean chemistry and engineering, and aquaculture. His field research has encompassed the Canadian Arctic, Bering Sea, West Indies, Indo-West Pacific, Central America, and the Amazon basin of Ecuador and Brazil. ANIMAL WRONGS is his fifth novel. He lives in Longboat Key, Florida.