His Monkey Wife: or Married to a Chimp
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His Monkey Wife: or Married to a Chimp (1930) is a story by John Collier of a man falling in love with and marrying a chimpanzee.
While John Collier had written some short stories during the period in which he was trying to find success as a poet, his career did not take shape until the publication of "His Monkey Wife" in 1930. It enjoyed a certain small popularity and critical approval that helped to sell his short stories. As a private joke, Collier wrote a decidedly cool four-page review of His Monkey Wife, describing it as an attempt "to combine the qualities of the thriller with those of what might be called the decorative novel," and concluding with the following appraisal of the talents of its author: "From the classical standpoint his consciousness is too crammed for harmony, too neurasthenic for proportion, and his humor is too hysterical, too greedy, and too crude."
