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Planet of the Apes (Vintage Classics)

Planet of the Apes (Vintage Classics)

by PierreBoulle (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $11.48
Synopsis

In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their mutual origins. But such revelations will have always been greeted by prejudice and fear...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 May 2011
ISBN 10: 0099529041
ISBN 13: 9780099529040
Book Overview: A chilling dystopian vision of the ultimate role reversal, a cult hit since the 1960s

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Pierre Boulle was born in 1912 at Avignon. Boulle spent the Second World War fighting in Yunnan, Calcutta and Indo-Chine, where he was captured by the Japanese. After the war he lived in Malaya, the Cameroons and, finally, Paris, where he settled until his death in 1994.