Mostly Harmless: 5 (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) - Softcover

Adams, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345418778 ISBN 13: 9780345418777

Publisher: Del Rey Books, 2000

Synopsis

"It is Mr Adams's genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful."--Baltimore Sun

It's easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit--and immediately all hell breaks loose.

Hell takes a number of forms: there's the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn't even know he had one.

Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?

"Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless."--The Washington Post Book World

About this title

Review:

"Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here's] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem."--New York Times Book Review

"It is Mr. Adams's genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful."--Baltimore Sun

Book Description:

With additional material and a foreword by Dirk Maggs

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345418778
• ISBN 13: 9780345418777
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 240