Planet Of The Apes

Author: Pierre Boulle

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  • : 14.99 AUD
  • : 9780099529040
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : 01 April 2011
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : 01 July 2011
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Description

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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A chilling dystopian vision of the ultimate role reversal, a cult hit since the 1960s

Author description

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.