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Some people lose their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian dabauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend's loving arms. Much to his dismay, however, his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. To add insult to injury, the psychiatric crash team sent to deal with him as he flips his lid is also comprised of chimps. Indeed, the entire city is overrun by clever primates, who, when they are not jostling for position, grooming themselves, or mating some of the females, can be found driving Volvos, hanging out on street corners, and running the world. Nonetheless convinced that he is still a human, Simon is confined to the emergency psychiatric ward of Charing Cross Hospital, where he becomes the patient of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, medical doctor, anti-psychiatrist, and former television personality -- an expert at the height of his reign as alpha male. As Busner attempts to convince him that 'everyone who is fully sentient in this world are chimpanzees, ' Simon struggles with the horrifying delusion that he is really a human trapped in a chimp's body.
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'Exultantly hallucinogenic ... achieves the rare feat of temporarily altering the reader's perspective' (Guardian)
'Prodigiously original and very funny' (Observer)
'Excellent ... as in the best satires, this journey through the alien world of chimps is at heart a deeply serious (and even moving) call for us to reconsider the shortcomings of the human world' (Alain de Botton, The Times)
'His most daring and ambitious work ... genuinely provocative and entertaining' (Brian McCabe, Scotsman)
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'Prodigiously original and very funny' (Observer)
'Excellent ... as in the best satires, this journey through the alien world of chimps is at heart a deeply serious (and even moving) call for us to reconsider the shortcomings of the human world' (Alain de Botton, The Times)
'His most daring and ambitious work ... genuinely provocative and entertaining' (Brian McCabe, Scotsman)
Will Self's stunning, hallucinogenic satire
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0747529876
- ISBN 13 9780747529873
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages404
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