In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene. " seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America". Sunday Times Формат: 13 см х 20 см.

ISBN: 0-09-984260-2
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a...

ISBN: 978-6-1341-4521-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a...

ISBN: 978-5-5126-8670-6

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) is a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. Karabekian mentions this relationship once in the novel.

ISBN: 978-5-5146-3469-9

`His funniest book since `Breakfast of Champions`...There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.` (`Newsweek`). `Hilarious... unsettling... exhilarating...This work has been a blessing.` - (Valerie Sayers, `The New York Times Book Review`). `Timequake` is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut... What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug...You`ve got to love him.` - (`Washington Post Book World`). `Humorous, sardonic...`Timequake` makes for irresistible reading that`s loaded with more important truths than it lets on...Moralizing has never been funnier.` - (`Chicago Sun-Times`) `Vonnegut is at his best.` - (`Atlanta Journal-Constitution`).

ISBN: 0-425-16596-5
Издательство: Penguin USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), although Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has also led critics to view him as the author's own alter ego. Trout is also the titular author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, pseudonymously written by Philip Jose Farmer. Trout was portrayed by Albert Finney in the 1999 film version of Breakfast Of Champions, directed by Alan Rudolph. In the novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, the folksinging fan Jenny Trout (a character based on real-life...

ISBN: 978-6-1341-4516-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fiction in the '70s brought a return to old- fashioned storytelling, especially with Erich Segal's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as Saul Bellow and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start of the decade. Racism remained a key literary subject. John Updike emerged as a major literary figure. Reflections of the 1960s experience also found roots in the literature of the decade through the works of Joyce Carol Oates and Morris Wright. With the rising cost of hard-cover books and the increasing readership of "genre fiction", the paperback became a popular medium. Criminal non-fiction also became a popular topic....

ISBN: 978-6-1316-0590-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011