The story of a man who reacts to past tragedy, family greed and fabulous wealth by promptly going insane
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and according to Harper's Magazine, established him as 'a true artist' with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, 'one of the best living American writers'. Vonnegut died in April 2007.
Vonnegut faces up to the less glamorous phenomenon of human
mediocrity in this sharp, hilarious, boundlessly humane story. It
taught me about compassion and a few things about writing good
dialogue
*Glasgow Herald*
Rumbustious stuff... There may be greater novelists than Vonnegut,
but there can be a few, if any, with as much good humour and
generosity
*Guardian*
Filled with irony and black humour and a woozy bonhomie
*Sunday Times*
Wild hilarity
*Sunday Telegraph*
Extremely funny
*Observer*
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