Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father [Paperback]

Artfully told & laugh-out funny." - Los Angeles Times Book Review. The long-out-of-print Roy Lewis Classic about a typical Stone Age family (as imagined by Lewis) is a hilarious novel that would make Charles Darwin turn over in his grave! For alongside its highly revisionist accounts of the origins of courtship and the staples of Pleistocene cuisine, it reimagines our remote ancestors as characters in some glittering drawing-room comedy. It's the funniest thing to happen to prehistory since Raquel Welch donned a fur bikini in the film "One Million B.C. and not to be missed. "The Evolution Man" is a strange blend of Kafka and Calvino parables with a heavy seasoning of Monty Python thrown in for good measure. Prehistory was never so funny. First published in 1960, this was Roy Lewis debut novel.