“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book ReviewGalápagos 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 … 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
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The story opens with a narrator from a million years in the future. He brings us back in time to the 1980s when a group of people are about the take a cruise. What the passengers don’t know is that it is about the be the apocolypse and they will be the last survivors of the human race and whom all future humans stem from.
The narrator had …
Classic Vonnegut—which is good!
A must for any Vonnegut fan.
A provocative theory of how the wasteful big-brained humans of our time transition into tiny-brained animals in the distant future. Told from the position of someone looking back over time at the exact mo!ment the transformation started. Really makes you think!
Too long with no action, the wit couldn’t sustain my interest in this one.
Kurt Vonnegut has a very original view of things, and takes evolution to a whole new direction. His lack of faith in humanity rings true yet again, as seen through the eyes of each of his characters. Though primarily of the narrator of the story, a ghost, who views the situation somewhat abstractly. I loved the progression of events, though the …