“A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.”-The Denver Post Galápagos is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.”-St. “Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters. 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 “A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic. If he has no prescription for alleviating the pain of the human condition, at least he is a first-rate diagnostician.”-Susan Isaacs, Newsday “Interesting, engaging, sad and yet very funny. a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.”-The Detroit Free Press provocative, arresting reading.”-USA Today “The best Vonnegut novel yet!”-John Irving 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. 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. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”-The New York Times Book Review
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