Like Franz Kafka's Metamo r phosis, Great Apes is a strange a nd twisted tale, a surreal satire on the human condition, a nd an omen fo r those who wa nder too far. After a long night of partying, Simon Dykes, a successful British painter, wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. In fact, the wo r ld Simon once knew has become a planet of apes. Convinced he is still human, Simon is confined to the emergency ward of a hospital a nd put under the care of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, radical psychoanalyst, maverick drug researcher, a nd media personality. Written with the glittering satiric edge that is Self's hallmark, Great Apes is a hilarious, disturbing, a nd truly unfo r gettable novel.