Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”—John Irving
“Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.”—USA Today
“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern
Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review
“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
For many Vonnegut fans, Galapagos will be a disappointment. The story is set ``one million years ago, back in 1986 A.D.'' and concerns the maiden voyage of the Bahia de Darwin to the Galapa gos Islands. The narrator is a ghost, and the main characters are those involved with the cruise. As the narrative devel ops, we learn that people have evolved from having ``big brains'' that always get them in trouble, to creatures with flippersbut they keep getting eaten by sharks. The narration jumps back and forth between past and future, so that there is no real sense of what life is like in the ``present'' of the story, and it is difficult to grasp what these new hu mans are really like. Vonnegut's usual stylistic devices just don't work here. Buy for demand. Susan Avallone, ``Library Journal''
"The best Vonnegut novel yet!"-John Irving
"Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading."-USA
Today
"A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern
Mark Twain."-The New York Times Book Review
"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 . . . Galapagos 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
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