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Tom Wolfe

The Kingdom of Speech


2017. 192 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: RANDOM HOUSE UK; VINTAGE 2017
ISBN: 1-78470-489-X (178470489X)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78470-489-6 (9781784704896)

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From the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, the maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
´A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe´s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.´ - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey through language. The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity´s complex societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech.
"A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe´s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again." Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times
Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation´s 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in NewYork City.