Ishmael (Pb)

Author: Daniel Quinn

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  • : 32.99 AUD
  • : 9780553375404
  • : Random House Publishing Group
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  • : May 1995
  • : 210mm X 133mm X 18mm
  • : United States
  • : 34.99
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  • : Daniel Quinn
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780553375404
9780553375404

Description

A man and a great ape conduct a series of philosophical conversations in a work that presents a new vision of evolution and humankind and asks the question: does the Earth belong to humans, or do humans belong to the Earth?

Reviews

"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet...laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny." -- New York Times Book Review,



"[Quinn] entrap[s] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition...it was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize." -- The Washington Post



"It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year" -- The Austin Chronicle



"Deserves high marks as a serious -- and all too rare -- effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns." -- The Atlanta Journal Constitution