The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ISBN-13: 9780345391803 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 224 str.

ADAMS DOUGLAS

Opis

"Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel

Praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"A whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy."--Publishers Weekly

"Irresistable "--The Boston Globe

Recenzje

Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written . . . ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain. The Atlantic

Irresistible! The Boston Globe

With droll wit, a keen eye for detail and heavy doses of insight . . . Adams makes us laugh until we cry. The San Diego Union-Tribune

One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius. David Walliams

Really entertaining and fun. Michael Palin

Fizzing with ideas . . . brilliant. Charlie Brooker

Weird and wonderful. Eoin Colfer

It changed my whole life. It s literally out of this world. Tom Baker

O autorze

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.