The Woman and the Ape - Softcover

Høeg, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312427123 ISBN 13: 9780312427122

Publisher: Picador, 2007

Synopsis

General Fiction Large Print Edition Hoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict . . . one of the essential contemporary novelists.

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Review:

"The Woman and the Ape has many arrestingly stylish and inventive passages and an overall brilliance of tone that shows once again the originality of Mr. Høeg's voice." --The New York Times

"A witty, compelling thriller that touches a primal nerve that has lain dormant since King Kong fell hard for Fay Wray." --Francine Prose, People

"This decade's most offbeat love story . . . Funny, often touching, and definitely inventive." --David Walton, St. Petersburg Times

"The Woman and the Ape is great fun to read. . . . Peter Høeg has written an intelligent novel of ideas and slyly disguised it as a lighthearted comedy. . . . He's figured out how to blend his various styles into a distinctive voice that's satiric, deadpan funny, at once warm and cool." --Brigitte Frase, Newsday

"No imaginative writer working today is any more daring than Danish novelist Peter Høeg, any more willing to shock readers with something that is genuinely new. . . . He does it again with this utterly original mix of fantasy, fable, myth, and love story." --Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)

"This should confirm Peter Høeg's place as one of the most creative and interesting authors today." --Elizabeth D. Dickie, Richmond Times-Dispatch

"One of the most griping books I've read in years. It moved me so deeply that by the end I found myself weeping." --Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Village Voice Literary Supplement

"An engrossing fable." --Deloris Ament, The Seattle Times

Book Description:

From the author of international success Smilla’s Sense of Snow, comes a brilliant, hilarious and thought-provoking love story, which unites fantasy, fable, and myth with reality, and a woman with an ape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312427123
• ISBN 13: 9780312427122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272