Gapagosa Novel (Dea Fiction)

?A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.??The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America? s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry?and all that is worth saving. Praise for Galápagos ?The best Vonnegut novel yet!??John Irving ?Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.??USA Today ?A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.??The Detroit Free Press ?Interesting, engaging, sad and yet very funny . . . Vonnegut is still in top form. If he has no prescription for alleviating the pain of the human condition, at least he is a first-rate diagnostician.??Susan Isaacs, Newsday ?Dark . . . original and funny.??People ?A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic . . . a condensation, an evolution of Vonnegut?s entire career, including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades.??The Philadelphia Inquirer ?Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . Galápagos is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.??St. Louis Post-Dispatch ?A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.??The Denver Post ?Wacky wit and irreverent imagination . . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America?s preeminent experimental novelist.??The Minneapolis Star and Tribune

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Publication Date: January 12, 1999

Number of Pages: 336 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0385333870

ISBN-13: 9780385333870