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Novels 1987-1997, Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor

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Novels 1987-1997, Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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no index present

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fiction

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Novels 1987-1997

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bibliography

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907941337

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Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor

Series statement

Library of America, 273

Summary

... "The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut brings his indelible voice to a range of still-burning issues--free speech, racism, environmental calamity, deindustrialization, and globalization. Timequake (1997), the author's last completed novel, is part science fiction yarn (starring perennial protagonist Kilgore Trout), part diary of the mid-1990s (starring the author himself). The result is a perfect fusion of Vonnegut's two signature genres, the satirical fantasy and the personal essay, and a literary magician's fond farewell to his readers and his craft."--Jacket

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