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Great Apes: Reissued
Will Self
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Description for Great Apes: Reissued
Paperback. Will Self's stunning, hallucinogenic satire Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 348.
When artist Simon Dykes wakes after a late night of routine debauchery, he discovers that his world has changed beyond recognition. His girlfriend, Sarah, has turned into a chimpanzee. And, to Simon's appalled surprise, so has the rest of humanity. Simon, under the bizarre delusion that he is ‘human', is confined to an emergency psychiatric ward. There he becomes of considerable interest to eminent psychologist and chimp, Dr Zack Busner. For with this fascinating case, Busner thinks may finally make his reputation as a truly great ape.
When artist Simon Dykes wakes after a late night of routine debauchery, he discovers that his world has changed beyond recognition. His girlfriend, Sarah, has turned into a chimpanzee. And, to Simon's appalled surprise, so has the rest of humanity. Simon, under the bizarre delusion that he is ‘human', is confined to an emergency psychiatric ward. There he becomes of considerable interest to eminent psychologist and chimp, Dr Zack Busner. For with this fascinating case, Busner thinks may finally make his reputation as a truly great ape.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408827406
SKU
V9781408827406
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About Will Self
Will Self is the author of four collections of short stories (the first of which, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, won the 1992 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award), five novels (of which How the Dead Live was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year in 2002), and four non-fiction works. He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio and ... Read more
Reviews for Great Apes: Reissued
‘Exultantly hallucinogenic ... achieves the rare feat of temporarily altering the reader's perspective'
Guardian
‘Prodigiously original and very funny'
Observer
‘Excellent ... as in the best satires, this journey through the alien world of chimps is at heart a deeply serious (and even moving) call for us to reconsider the shortcomings of the human world'
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Guardian
‘Prodigiously original and very funny'
Observer
‘Excellent ... as in the best satires, this journey through the alien world of chimps is at heart a deeply serious (and even moving) call for us to reconsider the shortcomings of the human world'
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