Availability
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PUBLISHED
Detroit : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, ©2013
EDITION
Large Print edition
DESCRIPTION
459 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781410464194 (large print : hardcover), 1410464199 (large print : hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Thorndike Press large print reviewer's choice"
When an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, his first impressions of humans are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete his task and hurry back to his own utopian planet. Disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, he is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to reconsider