Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut [1]
PRAISE FOR KURT VONNEGUT’S
HOCUS POCUS
“Terribly funny... As good as the best of his novels.”
—John Irving, Los Angeles Times
“Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date ... He is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion.”
—Jay McInerney, The New York Times
“His voice is one of the most original in popular American fiction ... sharp-toothed satire... truly hilarious... Hocus Pocus is ample proof that his literary prestidigitation can still amuse and delight.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Vonnegut is back, with plenty to say... Combining clever wit with keen social observation, Hocus Pocus re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut’s place as the Mark Twain of our times.”
—Atlanta Journal & Constitution
“Vintage Vonnegut, witty, startling, satiric... off-the wall brilliance. Vonnegut is a true original. Hocus Pocus is not only poignant and provocative, it is outrageous and very funny indeed. If Luck and Time are the two prime movers of the Universe, we are lucky in our time to have a Kurt Vonnegut to prod us, scold us, astonish us, unnerve us, entertain us and make us laugh.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A king-sized relief valve of comedy. Every bit as humorous as Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, or any of Vonnegut’s other comic masterpieces... Vonnegut evokes the cynical chortle, the knowing grin, the inner laughter that soothes our troubled reflections ... He’s mad as hell and laughing all the way to the apocalypse.”—Playboy
“Vonnegut’s best novel in years.”—The Nation
PRAISE FOR KURT VONNEGUT’S
FATES WORSE THAN DEATH
“Fates Worse Than Death is honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart ... Mr. Vonnegut is perhaps more intimate with the reader than ever.”—The New York Times
“The kindred spirit of Mark Twain harpoons humanity with howling assessments... Vonnegut’s genius for satire continues to shine.”—Nashville Banner
“An often insightful and always funny self-portrait that may be as much of an autobiography as we will ever get from Vonnegut.”
—Playboy
“Mordantly funny... highly entertaining.”—Newsday
“Startlingly original ... [The book] touches on actual ‘fates worse than death’ (Vonnegut concludes there are very few), pornography (several of his own books have been branded as such by religious zealots), Geraldo Rivera (Vonnegut’s unlamented ex-son-in-law), Manhattan (Skyscraper National Park), and the fire-bombing of Dresden while he was a prisoner there during World War II (certainly the inspiration for the classic Slaughterhouse-Five) ... Witty and warmhearted, Fates Worse Than Death offers a cornucopia of ideas, reminiscences, opinions, asides, anecdotes and flights of fancy. Although intensely personal, it embraces matters that touch us all.”
—St. Petersburg Times
“Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder ... uncompromising.”
—Los Angeles Times
“He remains a happy pessimist and one of the country’s most thoughtful and entertaining writers.”—San Antonio Express-News
Books by Kurt Vonnegut
PLAYER PIANO
THE SIRENS OF TITAN
MOTHER NIGHT
CAT’S CRADLE
GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
WAMPETERS, FOMA & GRANFALLOONS
SLAPSTICK
JAILBIRD
PALM SUNDAY
DEADEYE DICK
GALÁPAGOS
BLUEBEARD
HOCUS POCUS
FATES WORSE THAN DEATH
TIMEQUAKE
BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX
Out-of-print science fiction writer Kilgore Trout
in Cohoes, New York, in 1975, having learned of
the death of his estranged son, Leon, in a Swedish
shipyard, having given his parakeet, “Cyclone Bill, ”
his freedom, and about to become a vagabond.
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