Descent of Man: Stories - Softcover
In The Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject to be 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' - Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.
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T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.
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Depicting Lassie, Idi Amin, chimps and a Norse poet, "Boyle has X-ray vision when he considers the incongruities of the way we live and the things we do. He manages to find weak spots, capitalize on them, build from them wild and absurd stories that give a new dimension to black humor," observed PW .
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0070069565
- ISBN 13 9780070069565
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- Number of pages219
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First McGraw-Hill Paperback edition, 1980. T.C.Boyle's first story collection, unread, in Near Fine condition. "Uproariously comic, discomfortingly provocative, T. Coraghessan Boyle is a writer to savor and to watch."---Saturday Review "An energetic writer who is willing to try anything. An adventurous new bird has come to roost in the literary jungle."---New York Times "T.C. Boyle is on his way out of the literary underground where he has been almost a legend."---Vance Bourjaily. Bright, clean & tight copy w/the King-Kong-Idi-Amin-etc-in-a-boat cover; well-preserved sharp corners & a square/tight binding w/no creases in spine; uniform fading-to-yellow on spine of orange cover, some slight shelfwear to edges & yellowing of pages, o/w intact & unmarked. Not bad for a 40-year-old first book of a distinguished career. Quite presentable & collectible. Seller Inventory # RUB1055
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