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Great apes

Will Self

1997404 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997Grove Press · 404 pages · ENGISBN 9780802116178
  • 1998Grove Press · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780802135766

Painter Simon Dykes awakens after a night of drinking to find the world is populated by monkeys. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital where monkey doctors try to cure him of his delusion that he is human. A spoof on the human condition.

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