Organ Grinders - Softcover

Fitzhugh, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060815264 ISBN 13: 9780060815264

Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2005

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Book by Fitzhugh Bill

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"IT'S NOT EASY WALKING THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN MEDICAL THRILLERS A LA CRICHTON AND ABSURDIST BLACK COMEDY IN THE HIAASEN MOLD. BUT FITZHUGH MANAGES IT SMOOTHLY". -- BOOKLIST

." laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied." -- CNN.com

"If Michael Crichton and Carl Hiaasen collaborated...the result might look a lot like this very bizarre novel."--Booklist

."..a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology."--Rocky Mountain News

"His wit and style are as compelling as his tightly wound thriller plots...the result is an awe-inspiring feat.--Washington Post

.".. laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied."--CNN.com

"If there's anybody currently working hard at resuscitating the art of political incorrectness, it's Fitzhugh.--Library Journal

..". laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied."--CNN.com

..".a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology."--Rocky Mountain News

laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied. --CNN.com"

Reseña del editor:

Bill Fitzhugh strikes again! Following his widely acclaimed debut novel, Pest Control (The [London] Times called it "one of the funniest, most off-beat thrillers in years"), Fitzhugh turns his satirical eye to the merging of medical science and big business -- with hilarious and outrageous results.

Paul Symon is an environmentalist who's out to make the world a better place, but he faces too much disjointed information, public apathy, and self-serving talk. Not to mention greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a venture capitalist dying of a rare disease that accelerates the aging process.

Landis cares only about making more money and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. That brings him and his fortune to the wild frontier of biotechnology, where his people are illegally experimenting with cross-species organ transplantation in California while breeding genetically altered primates at a secret site in the piney woods of south-central Mississippi.

There's also an eco-terrorist on the loose, bent on teaching hard lessons to people who think the Earth and its creatures are theirs to destroy. These forces, together with fifty thousand extra-large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter and wonder that Bill Fitzhugh's growing league of admirers is coming to recognize as his very own.

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• Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060815264
• ISBN 13: 9780060815264
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400