| Ape and Essence Contributor(s): Huxley, Aldous (Author) |
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ISBN: 0929587782 ISBN-13: 9780929587783 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1992 Annotation: In this savage novel Huxley transports us to Los Angeles in the year 2108, where we learn to our dismay about the 22nd-century way of life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91029803 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.03" W x 8.06" (0.57 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."-Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."-Time. |