I almost quite reading it... it took me quite some time to get into the novel. It occurred at roughly the same time we arrive into a fully realized world where chimps rule and humans are the lab tested animals.

Simon Dykes is renown artist and after a alcohol, drug and sex fueled night he wakes up in a where humanity is no longer -- rather, it's a chimpunity. Chimps drive the Volvo's and drugs are tested on human.; lil' chimps visit humans in the zoo and wear human masks at halloween. When I first began reading, I wondered which was the reality and which was not. Simon must face this new world with the help of a psychiatrist. It's fun and the chimp worldly description are so imagined.

The novel, in my mind, is gimmicky. But, the gimmick works. It's worth the 400 plus pages to read about the working in this Planet of the Apes (the Planet of the Humans movie descriptions are hysterical.)

If you're like me, bring a dictionary along for the ride. Self seems to write directly from a thesaurus.