{"product_id":"the-kingdom-of-speech-9781784704896","title":"The Kingdom of Speech","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey through language. \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom of Speech \u003c\/i\u003eis a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style\u003c\/b\u003e… Wolfe’s great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that \u003cb\u003eI read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eYou’re in the hands of \u003cb\u003ea master who has never written a dull word in his life\u003c\/b\u003e. Tom Wolfe, America’s greatest man of letters, is 85 and still \u003cb\u003efizzing with energy and insight\u003c\/b\u003e… Wolfe packs a lot in it, [\u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom of Speech\u003c\/i\u003e] writing with the fluency and vigour of a man one-third his age. -- James Delingpole * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eThe style is instantly recognisable, and the book hurtles on for 160 pages of \u003cb\u003ewicked, opinionated, high-velocity prose.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alun Anderson * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eA\u003cb\u003e marvelous mix of gleeful energy and whip-around-the-neck control\u003c\/b\u003e, and his book is a gas to read. -- Charles Mann * Wall Street Journal (Europe) *\u003cbr\u003eIt is clear how much we have missed him… The wonder of his book is its point of view. He is a polemicist, a slayer of reputation and pretension…  \u003cb\u003eIt is wonderful to have him back.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Philip Delves Broughton * Financial Times *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020438896983,"sku":"9781784704896","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784704896.jpg?v=1750783432","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-kingdom-of-speech-9781784704896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}