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In this memoir of the past decade, Kurt Vonnegut examines issues and events, both personal and cultural, ranging freely through time, fusing memory and imagination. The subjects range from a death in the family, Vonnegut's own brush with suicidal depression or the future of the planet; Ronald Reagan, Salman Rushdie or Andrew Loyd Webber; unicorns, Alcoholics Anonymous and his keen interest in discovering whether there is indeed a fate worse than death.
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"An American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions... One of the last of a generation of great American novelists of World War II" (Los Angeles Times)
"Like listening to the monologue of an interesting man whose tongue has been loosened by just one glass of wine" (Guardian)
"Fates Worse Than Death is honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart" (New York Times)
"A truly great work of moral philosophy" (The Age)
"Fates Worse Than Death is the latest volume of his cunning, rambling, edgy sermonettes, his wry, moral bomblets chucked night after night from podium and pulpit into gatherings of shrinks and museologists, Anglicans, architects, MIT graduands and the like. Rumours that the old boy was losing his knack of drilling straight into the nerve of western complacency can, on the evidence of this marvellously tetchy wit, be discounted." (Observer)
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A collection of autobiographical writings by the most zanily imaginative and brilliantly barking commentator of the post-war era
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0224029185
- ISBN 13 9780224029186
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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