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Lucy

by Laurence Gonzales
Lucy

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ISBN13: 9780307272607
ISBN10: 0307272605
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Laurence Gonzales's electrifying adventure opens in the jungles of the Congo. Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees — the bonobos — is running for her life.

A civil war has exploded and Jenny is trapped in its crosshairs... She runs to the camp of a fellow primatologist.

The rebels have already been there.

Everyone is dead except a young girl, the daughter of Jenny's brutally murdered fellow scientist — and competitor.

Jenny and the child flee, Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely — her name is Lucy.

Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy's father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment.

She is part human, part ape — a hybrid human being...

Laurence Gonzales's novel grabs you from its opening pages and you stay with it, mesmerized by the shy but fierce, wonderfully winning Lucy.

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"Masterful storyteller Gonzales returns to fiction with a pensive meditation on a question of biology....Michael Crichton might have produced this had he had a literary sensibility. Thoroughly well-written, grounded in science and a sorrowful sense of human nature, this book is utterly memorable." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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"Lucy is irresistible, her predicament wrenching, and Gonzales's imaginative, sweet-natured, hard-charging, and deeply inquisitive thriller will be a catalyst for serious thought and debate." Booklist

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"The story alternates between adventure and scientific treatise, and is a good choice for those missing Michael Crichton's speculative fiction. Sometimes poignant, sometimes corny, Lucy still manages to examine cultural standards with fresh eyes." Library Journal

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An explosive, daring novel that suggests what might happen when a young girl is discovered to be the result of the experimental breeding of human and ape.

Lucy, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a primatologist, a girl who has had only apes as playmates, is rescued from the jungles of the Congo during a civil war uprising and brought to live in the suburbs of Chicago. The stunning revelation of who — and what — she sets in motion her fight for survival and for her very right to exist.

Here is a novel that has as its underpinnings the moral, ethical, and philosophical issues of cutting-edge biotechnology, genetic engineering, and cloning, and that masterfully explores what it means to be human...

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An explosive, daring novel that suggests what might happen when a young girl is discovered to be the result of the experimental breeding of human and ape.

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Laurence Gonzaless electrifying adventure opens in the jungles of the Congo. Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees—the bonobos—is running for her life.

A civil war has exploded and Jenny is trapped in its crosshairs . . . She runs to the camp of a fellow primatologist.

The rebels have already been there.

Everyone is dead except a young girl, the daughter of Jennys brutally murdered fellow scientist—and competitor.

Jenny and the child flee, Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist whos been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely—her name is Lucy.

Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucys father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment.

She is part human, part ape—a hybrid human being . . .

Laurence Gonzaless novel grabs you from its opening pages and you stay with it, mesmerized by the shy but fierce, wonderfully winning Lucy.


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About the Author

Laurence Gonzales is the author of three novels and six books of nonfiction, among them One Zero Charlie, The Hero's Apprentice, and Everyday Survival. His 2003 book Deep Survival was a bestseller and published in six languages. His articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, Air & Space / Smithsonian, and National Geographic Adventure. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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deep thinker , July 18, 2010 (view all comments by deep thinker)
Lucy is a normal teenager...or is she? What is normal anyway? Gonzales presents a unique story addressing ethical and philosophical questions surrounding western culture and what it means to be "human". This is a great book for book clubs and classrooms. I couldn't put this book down and Lucy's story has stayed with me since I finished it. Now if only my friends would read it...

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780307272607
Binding:
Hardcover
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Pages:
320
Height:
9.42 in.
Width:
6.40 in.
Thickness:
1.19 in.
Grade Range:
General/trade
Number of Units:
1
UPC Code:
4294967295
Author:
Laurence Gonzales
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Genetic engineering

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