The Evolution Man: Or How I Ate My Father (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Lewis, Roy

 
9780679750093: The Evolution Man: Or How I Ate My Father (Vintage Contemporaries)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679750096 ISBN 13: 9780679750093
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994

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Here is a typical Stone Age family, reimagined by Roy Lewis in this hilarious novel as characters in some glittering drawing-room comedy. Father, who has a scientific turn of mind, has just discovered fire. Mother makes sure the children finish supper, even when the plat du jour is toad. Uncle Vanya thinks that the species has been flirting with disaster ever since it began to chip flint into tools. While little Alexander has gotten himself in deep trouble by making the first cave painting: artists are always so misunderstood.

Long out of print, The Evolution Man would make Charles Darwin turn over in his grave. Lewis has written a witty, intelligent satire of the lives of our remote ancestors, complete with highly revisionist accounts of everything from the origins of courtship to the staples of Pleistocene cuisine. It's the funniest thing to happen to prehistory since Raquel Welch donned a fur bikini in One Million B.C.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roy Lewis was an English author and journalist. He was born in 1913 and for many years wrote for The Times and The Economist. He is best known for his novel The Evolution Man. Lewis died in 1996.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679750096
ISBN 13 
9780679750093
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
222
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