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YA Leon Trout, the ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder, narrates the humorous, ironic and sometimes carping decline of the human race, as seen through the eyes and minds of the survivors of a doomed cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Vonnegut's cast of unlikely Adams and Eves setting out in a Noah's ark includes Mary Hepburn, an American biology teacher and recent widow; Zenji Hiroguchi, a Japanese computer genius (who does not make it to the ship, although his language-translating and quotation-spouting computer does); his wife, Hisako, carrying radiated genes from the atomic bombs; James Wait, who has made a fortune marrying elderly women; and Captain Aolph von Kleist. Also included: six orphaned girls of the Kana-bono cannibal tribe, who will become the founding mothers of the fisherfolk after bacteria render all other women infertile. Serious fans of Vonnegut's wry and ribald prose will welcome this tale of the devolution of superbrained humans into gentle swimmers with small brains, but others may find this Darwinian survival tale too packed with ecological and sociological details that trap the story line in a series of literary devices, albeit very clever ones. Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, Md.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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''
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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YA Leon Trout, the ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder, narrates the humorous, ironic and sometimes carping decline of the human race, as seen through the eyes and minds of the survivors of a doomed cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Vonnegut's cast of unlikely Adams and Eves setting out in a Noah's ark includes Mary Hepburn, an American biology teacher and recent widow; Zenji Hiroguchi, a Japanese computer genius (who does not make it to the ship, although his language-translating and quotation-spouting computer does); his wife, Hisako, carrying radiated genes from the atomic bombs; James Wait, who has made a fortune marrying elderly women; and Captain Aolph von Kleist. Also included: six orphaned girls of the Kana-bono cannibal tribe, who will become the founding mothers of the fisherfolk after bacteria render all other women infertile. Serious fans of Vonnegut's wry and ribald prose will welcome this tale of the devolution of superbrained humans into gentle swimmers with small brains, but others may find this Darwinian survival tale too packed with ecological and sociological details that trap the story line in a series of literary devices, albeit very clever ones. Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, Md.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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''
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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THE THING WAS: One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D., Guayaquil was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador, whose capital was Quito, high in the Andes Mountains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
great big brains, blue tunnel, nature cruise, great frigate birds, main saloon, marine iguana, radar dish, courtship dance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Hepburn, Santa Rosalia, James Wait, Bahia de Darwin, Bahía de Darwin, United States, Galápagos Islands, Zenji Hiroguchi, Hisako Hiroguchi, New York, Quoth Mandarax, Bobby King, San Mateo, Siegfried von Kleist, Andrew Maclntosh, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Charles Darwin, Jesús Ortiz, Law of Natural Selection, Willard Flemming, Hotel El Dorado, Captain Adolf von Kleist, Hernando Cruz, Roy Hepburn, South American New!
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THE THING WAS: One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D., Guayaquil was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador, whose capital was Quito, high in the Andes Mountains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
great big brains, blue tunnel, nature cruise, great frigate birds, main saloon, marine iguana, radar dish, courtship dance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Hepburn, Santa Rosalia, James Wait, Bahia de Darwin, Bahía de Darwin, United States, Galápagos Islands, Zenji Hiroguchi, Hisako Hiroguchi, New York, Quoth Mandarax, Bobby King, San Mateo, Siegfried von Kleist, Andrew Maclntosh, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Charles Darwin, Jesús Ortiz, Law of Natural Selection, Willard Flemming, Hotel El Dorado, Captain Adolf von Kleist, Hernando Cruz, Roy Hepburn, South American New!
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- Natural Selection (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Charles Darwin on page 14, page 34, and page 81
- Voyage of the Beagle (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 13, and page 46
- Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage by Kurt Vonnegut in Front Matter
- Deadeye Dick: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut in Front Matter
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut in Front Matter
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