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PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.

ISBN-101598530984

ISBN-139781598530988

eBay Product ID (ePID)99583613

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Book TitleKurt Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1963-1973 (LOA #216) : Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions

Number of Pages848 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Satire, Literary

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorKurt Vonnegut

Book SeriesLibrary of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight25.3 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-935702

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number2

SynopsisLike 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

LC Classification NumberPS3572.O5A6 2011

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Jul 16, 2019
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