THERE'S NO PLANET LIKE HOMEAfter an'incident'one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge,Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone,that is,except Newton,(and he's a dog).Who is he really And what could make someone change their mind about the human race
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781805300175Number of pages: 320Weight: 215 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mmEdition: Main
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Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spotA wonderfully funny,gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger,Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will,love,marriage,logic,immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancyGreat idea,great plot and superb comedy,especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human waysMatt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish,and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opusA novel with an enormous heart,infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we areHaig's unexpectedly raw tale of love,belonging,and peanut butter...Funny,clever and quite,quite lovelyExcellent...very human and touching indeedThe Humans is tremendous; a kind of Curious Incident meets The Man Who Fell to Earth. It's funny,touching and written in a highly appealing voiceThe Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling,thrilling,puzzling,believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tinA brilliant exploration of what it is to love,and to be human,The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious,weird,and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time
Matt Haig
An author who blurs the lines between genres,blending fantasy,myth and science fiction to create some of the most inventive and enduringly popular contemporary fiction,Matt Haig is also amongst Waterstones bookseller's favourite authors. His novels include How to Stop Time,The Radleys and The Humans as well as children's books including A Boy Called Christmas and The Girl Who Saved Christmas. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones non-fiction Book of the Month,Reasons to Stay Aliveand the follow up, Notes on a Nervous Planet.
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