{"product_id":"galapagos-book-kurt-vonnegut-9780385333870","title":"Galapagos","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGalápagos\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eGalápagos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The best Vonnegut novel yet!\"\u003cb\u003e--John Irving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Detroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Susan Isaacs, \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Dark . . . original and funny.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . \u003ci\u003eGalápagos\u003c\/i\u003e is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Wacky wit and irreverent imagination .  . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America's preeminent experimental novelist.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Minneapolis Star and Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49583017132305,"sku":"CIN0385333870G","price":6.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49747535364369,"sku":"CIN0385333870A","price":6.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49788532785425,"sku":"CIN0385333870VG","price":6.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50709287141649,"sku":"GOR014043286","price":11.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983687422225,"sku":"NIN9780385333870","price":19.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51285441118481,"sku":"GOR002947664","price":16.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52527188181265,"sku":"GOR006251218","price":12.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53133476004113,"sku":"GOR002232156","price":16.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385333870.jpg?v=1750740642","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/galapagos-book-kurt-vonnegut-9780385333870","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}