Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530984
• ISBN13: 9781598530988
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher