Lucy
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...
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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 is 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 . . .From the Hardcover edition.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307593665 (0307593665)
Publish date: July 13th 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
The story was interesting enough to overshadow the rather drab writing. I think it would have been better done from anyone's first person perspective instead of third - but doing it that way allowed the author to skip over a lot character development (e.g. everyone loves Lucy, we're told, but I'm no...
Lucy was my favorite required reading of the summer. I know a lot of classmates didn't enjoy the story as much, and it's true this type of tale is not everyones cup of tea. It's a sci-fi story of a genetically engineered girl and the researcher who adopts her. The actually story is charming, as Lucy...
Lucy is a hybrid human,with human and bonobo ape genes created by her father, a primatologist working in Congo. After a rebellion, he is left dead and Lucy is rescued by another researcher (unaware of Lucy's parentage) as she escapes the country. The book is a Young Adult novel, so its issues are ai...
An odd story, the focus throughout is "what's going to happen when They find out about Lucy?" And then, the particular part of the story makes very little sense, and no one ever does understand it. So, yes, it could have been tighter, and clearer, and less coincidental.Yes, the science aspect is a...
Quite enjoyed this book. It's full of wonderful feelings between the main characters, Jenny (a scientist) and Lucy (the half-human she finds in Africa). Thrown together by war, the two females bond and become family in spite of the many ways Lucy is not quite like other humans. The story really pick...
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