Ishmael Novel by Daniel Quinn

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, is a philosophical novel that won the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. The novel takes the form of a Socratic dialogue between a disillusioned man and a wise, telepathic gorilla named Ishmael. The central premise is that humanity is trapped in a destructive cultural myth that is leading toward global catastrophe, and that a different relationship with the natural world is possible.