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Unstuck in time : a journey through Kurt Vonnegut's life and novels / Gregory D. Sumner.
Van Pelt Library PS3572.O5 Z863 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sumner, Gregory D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vonnegut, Kurt.
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation.
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Characters.
- Autobiography in literature.
- Self in literature.
- American Dream in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- America--In literature.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Seven Stories Press first edition.
- Other Title:
- Kurt Vonnegut's life and novels
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Sumner guides readers, with insight and passion, through a biography of 15 of Kurt Vonnegut's best-known works to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms. 320 pp.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction : Storyteller, Kurt Vonnegut and the American dream
- Prologue : Impossible dreams, a writer's education, 1922-1952
- Player piano
- The sirens of titan
- Mother night
- Cat's cradle
- God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls before swine
- Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
- Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!
- Slapstick, or, Lonesome no more!
- Jailbird
- Deadeye Dick
- Galápagos : a second Noah's ark
- Bluebeard
- Hocus pocus
- Timequake
- Epilogue : A man without a country, a "planetary citizen."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781609803490
- 1609803493
- OCLC:
- 703209218
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