The Petting Zoo (Audiobook)

from jbealy

The Petting Zoo tells the story of Billy Wolfram, a successful 38 year old NY city artist, who is in crisis and searching for more meaning in his work and his life. The story moves back and forth in time from his childhood through the present, introducing us to a myriad of characters including be...

from idj

I'm not sure how I feel about this book. Like 'The Basketball Diaries' this book has a strong element of autobiography running throughout, though the protagonist is a celebrated artist rather than writer. Frightened into a panic attack by a piece of art at an exhibit, he is committed to a hospita...

from d0llparts

The late Jim Carroll's The Petting Zoo, which tells the story of Billy Wolfram, a popular artist living in New York City, had potential. The story is interesting enough - Billy suffers a mental breakdown while viewing a Velasquez painting and spends a couple of days in a mental hospital. This bre...

from Sullywriter

Carroll's only novel published posthumously. There are some great moments in this somewhat autobiographical story when Carroll's characteristic humor and wit shine through. He died before completing the final revisions which may account for why the last third of narrative seems a bit muddled.

from IamAleem

In this sadly disappointing and quite forgettable work of fiction JC lingers about to no avail. In the end, was this 'unfinished' mess of a book churned out by the publishers to simply capitalize on Carroll's death??!!?? P.S. His memoir 'The Basketball Diaries' was extremely overrated IMHO