Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)

€œA madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.€€"The New York Times Book Review

Gal¡pagos 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 Gal¡pagos 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.

Praise for Gal¡pagos

€œThe best Vonnegut novel yet!€€"John Irving

€œBeautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.€€"USA Today

€œA satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.€€"The Detroit Free Press
 
€œInteresting, 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.€€"Susan Isaacs, Newsday
 
€œDark . . . original and funny.€€"People
 
€œA 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.€€"The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
€œWild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . Gal¡pagos is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.€€"St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
€œA work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.€€"The Denver Post
 
€œWacky wit and irreverent imagination .  . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America€s preeminent experimental novelist.€€"The Minneapolis Star and Tribune