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Novels & stories, 1963-1973, Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor

eng

Includes bibliographical references

contains biographical information

illustrations

no index present

mixed forms

Novels & stories, 1963-1973

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Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor

The Library of America, 216

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

Cat's cradle -- God bless you, Mr. Rosewater -- Slaughterhouse-five -- Breakfast of champions -- Stories. Welcome to the monkey house -- Fortitude -- The big space fuck -- Appendix A. Address to the American Physical Society, New York City, February 5, 1969 -- Appendix B. Letter from PFC Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to his family, May 29, 1945 -- Wailing shall be in all streets -- A "special message" to readers of the Franklin Library's limited edition of "Slaughterhouse-five" -- Preface to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of "Slaughterhouse-five."

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