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Kurt Vonnegut's America / Jerome Klinkowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klinkowitz, Jerome.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation.
- Vonnegut, Kurt.
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Knowledge--United States.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- United States--In literature.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Following an introduction characterizing Vonnegut as Klinkowitz came to know him over the course of their friendship, this study charts the impact of Vonnegut on American society and of that society on Vonnegut for more than a half-century to illustrate how each informed the other. --from publisher description.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Vonnegut released
- Vonnegut's 1950's : human structures
- Vonnegut's 1960's : apocalypse redone
- Vonnegut's 1970's : a public figure
- Vonnegut's 1980's : arts and crafts
- Vonnegut's 1990's : autobiography and the novel
- Conclusion : Vonnegut uncaged.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613622891
- 9781280593062
- 1280593067
- 9781611171150
- 1611171156
- OCLC:
- 794413058
- Publisher Number:
- heb40078 hdl
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