Planet of the Apes: Pierre Boulle - Softcover

Boulle, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099529041 ISBN 13: 9780099529040

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their mutual origins. But such revelations will have always been greeted by prejudice and fear...

About this title

Review:

"A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory" (Los Angeles Times)

"In 1963, at the most glacial moment of the Cold War, Frenchman Pierre Boulle wrote a novel called Planet Of The Apes - a drastic warning about where mankind's apparent desire to destroy itself might lead" (The Mirror)

"Boulle called on his own experiences as a prisoner of war in South-east Asia during the Second World War, using the relationship between man and apes as a metaphor for the treatment handed out to prisoners by brutish Japanese guards" (Daily Express)

"It's like a good myth or fairy-tale that stays with you... Part of the strength of this material is its disruptive, questioning nature. Who came first? Where are we going?" (Tim Burton)

"The subtext is strongly anti-slavery, anti-racist and anti-war" (Observer)

Book Description:

A chilling dystopian vision of the ultimate role reversal, a cult hit since the 1960s

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099529041
• ISBN 13: 9780099529040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208