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The author reads a short ad in the personals section, "teacher seeks pupil, must have an earnest desire to save the world". This "teacher" is a gorilla called Ishmael. Through a series of conversations, the author learns how to regard the world from a totally different viewpoint.
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" A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet...laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny." -- "New York Times Book Review."
" [Quinn] entrap[s] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition...it was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize." -- "The Washington Post"
" It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year" -- "The Austin Chronicle."
" Deserves high marks as a serious -- and all too rare -- effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns." -- "The Atlanta Journal Constitution."
A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny. TheNew York Times Book Review
[Quinn entraps] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael s analysis of the human condition. . . . It was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize. The Washington Post
It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year. The Austin Chronicle
Deserves high marks as a serious and all too rare effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny."--The New York Times Book Review "[Quinn entraps] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition. . . . It was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize."--The Washington Post "It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year."--The Austin Chronicle "Deserves high marks as a serious--and all too rare--effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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" [Quinn] entrap[s] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition...it was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize." -- "The Washington Post"
" It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year" -- "The Austin Chronicle."
" Deserves high marks as a serious -- and all too rare -- effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns." -- "The Atlanta Journal Constitution."
A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny. TheNew York Times Book Review
[Quinn entraps] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael s analysis of the human condition. . . . It was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize. The Washington Post
It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year. The Austin Chronicle
Deserves high marks as a serious and all too rare effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny."--The New York Times Book Review "[Quinn entraps] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition. . . . It was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize."--The Washington Post "It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year."--The Austin Chronicle "Deserves high marks as a serious--and all too rare--effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In addition to Ishmael, Daniel Quinn is the author of Providence: The Story of a Fifty-year Vision Quest, The Story of B, A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Tom Whalen), and Ishmael.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0340717106
- ISBN 13 9780340717103
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages263
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