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Personally signed by the author Kurt Vonnegut directly into the book. Sealed - As New
Includes collector's notes and unattached bookplate for your own personalization.
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Easton Press., Norwalk, CT, "Galapagos". Kurt Vonnegut, JR. U.S.A. Hardcover AN; A special Limited Edition, this copy SIGNED by AUTHOR Kurt Vonnegut. This book has never been read and is in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap.
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Book Description
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.
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