Hocus Pocus - Hardcover

Vonnegut, Kurt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399135499 ISBN 13: 9780399135491

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1990

Synopsis

, 302 pages, privately printed and personally SIGNED by the author exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society, it is a limited first edition, paper insert within cellophane wrapper, describing limited edition nature and depicting a black and white

About this title

Product Description:

In the year 2001, the illegitimate son of a West Point graduate embarks on a search for his father, becomes his partner in crime, and joins him in a series of subversive, picaresque adventures

Review:

"Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special" (The Nation)

"Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country" (New York Times Book Review)

"Hocus Pocus is, of course, extremely funny. Jokes are told, deadpan and whiplash-sharp; neat, compulsive little anecdotes with stings in the tail jostle one another down the page" (Sunday Correspondent)

"After you have read one of Kurt Vonnegut's gleefully pessimistic novels, his words go on colouring your world for a long time afterwards... not to read him would be to miss out on lessons that need to be learned about the age we live in" (Sunday Times)

"It is all done with voice. Vonnegut is a master of the first-person, manic-depressive stand-up" (Observer)

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0399135499
• ISBN 13: 9780399135491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 302