The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and more.
"A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style… Wolfe’s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again" -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *
"You’re in the hands of a master who has never written a dull word in his life. Tom Wolfe, America’s greatest man of letters, is 85 and still fizzing with energy and insight… Wolfe packs a lot in it, [The Kingdom of Speech] writing with the fluency and vigour of a man one-third his age." -- James Delingpole * Mail on Sunday *
"The style is instantly recognisable, and the book hurtles on for 160 pages of wicked, opinionated, high-velocity prose." -- Alun Anderson * New Scientist *
"A marvelous mix of gleeful energy and whip-around-the-neck control, and his book is a gas to read." -- Charles Mann * Wall Street Journal (Europe) *
"It is clear how much we have missed him… The wonder of his book is its point of view. He is a polemicist, a slayer of reputation and pretension… It is wonderful to have him back." -- Philip Delves Broughton * Financial Times *
"[Kingdom of Speech is] vastly entertaining… compulsively readable." -- Muhammad Idrees Ahmad * National *
"It is a riveting read." -- Alun Anderson * New Scientist *
"The story of an academic dispute in the world of linguistics is beautifully told by a world-class storyteller." * i *
"You’re in the hands of a master who has never written a dull word in his life. Tom Wolfe, America’s greatest man of letters, is 85 and still fizzing with energy and insight… Wolfe packs a lot in it, [The Kingdom of Speech] writing with the fluency and vigour of a man one-third his age." -- James Delingpole * Mail on Sunday *
"The style is instantly recognisable, and the book hurtles on for 160 pages of wicked, opinionated, high-velocity prose." -- Alun Anderson * New Scientist *
"A marvelous mix of gleeful energy and whip-around-the-neck control, and his book is a gas to read." -- Charles Mann * Wall Street Journal (Europe) *
"It is clear how much we have missed him… The wonder of his book is its point of view. He is a polemicist, a slayer of reputation and pretension… It is wonderful to have him back." -- Philip Delves Broughton * Financial Times *
"[Kingdom of Speech is] vastly entertaining… compulsively readable." -- Muhammad Idrees Ahmad * National *
"It is a riveting read." -- Alun Anderson * New Scientist *
"The story of an academic dispute in the world of linguistics is beautifully told by a world-class storyteller." * i *
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911214199 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911214195 |
| Title | The Kingdom of Speech |
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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