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Synopsis
from back cover: Professor Williams' Trousered Apes are the violent, neurotic anti-heroes of contemporary literature and they reflect, as do all heroes, the culture of their time. They also presage its future. It is the author's thesis that a race which hates itself and mocks its ideals and institutions through the glorification of violence and pronography cannot survive. Our literature is more than evidence of self-loathing; it is an omen of the chaos ahead if we do not re-evaluate the human role in life. Trousered Apes was the target of controversy when it was first published in England. The country's leading periodicals and journals ignored it, until C.P. Snow hailed it as a book of great importance and it began to draw wide critical acclaim. It was later nominated as Book of the Year by 3 major English papers, the only book by a living Britisher to be so honored.
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- PublisherDelta Books
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0440090377
- ISBN 13 9780440090373
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages169
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