Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)

<b>“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /><br /></b><i>Galápagos </i>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 Galápagos 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.<br /><br /><b>Praise for <i>Galápagos</i></b><br /><br />“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”<b>—John Irving</b><br /><br /> “Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.”<b>—<i>USA Today</i></b><i><br /><br /></i>“A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.”<b>—<i>The Detroit Free Press</i></b><br />  <br /> “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.”<b>—Susan Isaacs, <i>Newsday</i></b><br />  <br /> “Dark . . . original and funny.”<b>—<i>People</i></b><br />  <br /> “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.”<b>—<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br />  <br /> “Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . <i>Galápagos</i> is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.”<b>—<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></b><br />  <br /> “A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.”<b>—<i>The Denver Post</i></b><br />  <br /> “Wacky wit and irreverent imagination .  . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America’s preeminent experimental novelist.”<b>—<i>The Minneapolis Star and Tribune</i></b>