Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday

Vonnegut, Kurt

ISBN 10: 0062314343 ISBN 13: 9780062314345

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2013

Synopsis

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

*The New York Times

About this title

Review:

"Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic... Fresh, funny, outrageous...he very nearly levitates" (New York Times)

"A great deal of wit and playfulness...an entire universe of disorder is distilled" (Guardian)

"Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly" (Spectator)

"Brilliant... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

'After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame' Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperaudio
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062314343
• ISBN 13: 9780062314345
• Binding: Audio CD