Galpagos - Kurt Vonnegut

"A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain."-The New York Times Book Review

Galpagos 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 Galpagos Islands are about to become the 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 Galpagos

"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 . . . Galpagos 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