Planet of the Apes: Monkey Planet (Tie in) - Softcover

Boulle, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141002956 ISBN 13: 9780141002958

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

From the director of Batman and Sleepy Hollow comes an electrifying re-imagining of the hugely popular 1968 classic - based on this original acclaimed novel by Pierre Boulle. It's 2029 and Astronaut Leo Davidson's pod cruiser hurls him through a space-time wormhole to his worst nightmare: a planet where apes rule man. Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army and reach the sacred temple within the Forbidden Zone.

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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: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141002956
• ISBN 13: 9780141002958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176