Novels & stories, 1963-1973
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Published
New York : Library of America :, [2011].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
851 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Vonnegut, K
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Published
New York : Library of America :, [2011].
Language
English
UPC
9781598530988, 99943958259
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Capturing Vonnegut in mid-career, this first of a 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 short stories and revealing autobiographical accounts of the bombing of Dresden.
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