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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (LOA #216) - Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions (Hardcover)
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (LOA #216) - Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions (Hardcover)
Series: Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition, 2
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Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern
everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at
the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that
we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so
finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties'
spirit that many critics overlooked the moral seriousness behind
the standup-comic craftsmanship.
Capturing Vonnegut in pyrotechnic mid-career, this first volume of
a projected three-volume edition gathers four of his most acclaimed
novels. "Cat's Cradle" (1963) is a comedy of the end of the world
(it ends with ice). "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" (1965) is the
tale of a so-called fool, his money, and the lawyer who contrives
to part them (it ends with fire). "Slaughterhouse-Five "(1969),
Vonnegut's breakout book and one of the iconic masterpieces of
twentieth-century American literature, is the tale of Billy
Pilgrim, who, being unstuck in time, is doomed to continually
relive both the firebombing of Dresden and his abduction by space
aliens. And, in a text enhanced by the author's spirited line
drawings, "Breakfast of Champions" (1973) describes the fateful
meeting of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men," one of
whom disastrously believes that everyone else is a robot. The
volume is rounded out with three brilliant short stories and
revealing autobiographical accounts of the bombing of Dresden.
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Imprint: |
The Library of America
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition, 2 |
Release date: |
June 2011 |
First published: |
June 2011 |
Authors: |
Kurt Vonnegut
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Editors: |
Sidney Offit
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Dimensions: |
210 x 132 x 37mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
851 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-59853-098-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-59853-098-4 |
Barcode: |
9781598530988 |
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