The Philosopher's Apprentice (P.S.) - Softcover

"[James Morrow] is an original-stylistically ingenious, savagely funny, always unpredictable." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"This novel [is] one of Morrow's best . . . the creative exuberances of THE PHILOSOPHER'S APPRENTICE are easily justified by the wisdom they support. For a wise novel, then, wittier and better proportioned than most of its predecessors, due praise."--Nick Gevers, Locus

"Morrow is a good as anybody at dramatizing the notion that ideas can both kill us and save us, and THE PHILOSOPHER'S APPRENTICE may well offer about as many provocative ideas per chapter as we'll see in any novel this year."--Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

"One of America's premier comic novelists and satirists. . . . Morrow is long overdue for a mainstream audience."--Denver Post

"[James Morrow] is an original--stylistically ingenious, savagely funny, always unpredictable."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Morrow addresses controversial topics without being heavy-handed, and infuses the narrative with a wit that pragmatists and idealists alike will appreciate. A-"--Entertainment Weekly

"Morrow's world is one where ideas matter so much they come lurching to life as intellectual Frankenstein creatures. In The Philosopher's Apprentice, they are wickedly hilarious - and then they can break our hearts and scare us silly."--Denver Post

"[Morrow's] valorization of reason together with his acute sense of comic absurdity have long made him a favorite of intellectuals . . . who see him in the tradition of Twain and Vonnegut."--Locus

"In some ways, [Morrow] reminds me of Mark Twain after the mid-1880s, and even more of Kurt Vonnegut. Like them, Morrow writes with a penetrating moral vision."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"James Morrow is a wildly imaginative and generous novelist who plays hilarious games with grand ideas."--New York Times Book Review

Taking a job on a tropical island tutoring an amnesiac victim whose conscience has disappeared with her memory, failed philosopher Mason Ambrose is amazed when his pupil thoroughly studies his morality curriculum and then sets out to remake the world in her own image. By the author of The Last Witchfinder. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.