Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
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Paperback 3 853руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- January 16, 2014
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-958294-6
- GTIN
- 9780099582946
- Weight, g
- 343
About
This collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote — from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life’. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am an American fad — of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop’.
Like Vonnegut’s books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.