- Authorship, Science fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Comic, spare, cool and ironic.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Caedmon Audio Cassette, RosettaBooks, Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780795302466
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“THIS IS A TALE of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as [*Slaughterhouse-Five* (1969)][1], [*Cat's Cradle* (1963)][2], and [*Breakfast of Champions* (1973)][3]. He was known for his humanist beliefs as well as being honorary president of the American Humanist Association. He is widely considered one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98474W/Slaughterhouse-Five [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98482W/Cat's_Cradle [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98488W/Breakfast_of_Champions
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