We the Animals (2011)

Justin Torres

The cover of the book 'We the Animals'

This book opens with the epigraph:

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Now a boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage. For by how much the more he has the fountain of prudence not fitted up, he becomes crafty and keen, and the most insolent of wild beasts. On this account it is necessary to bind him, as it were, with many chains.

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Aristocles Plato