A post-apocalyptic farce from cult hero Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include Cat's Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Bluebeard, two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007.
The non-stop invention, the jokes and clowning are in the familiar
Vonnegut tradition
*Daily Telegraph*
Wittily and engagingly written
*Guardian*
A brilliant wacky ideas-monger
*Observer*
A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny
*Financial Times*
One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction
*Sunday Times*
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