| Description |
754 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 273
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Library of America ; 273.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Bluebeard -- Hocus Pocus -- Timequake. |
| Summary |
..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut brings his indelible voice to a range of still-burning issues--free speech, racism, environmental calamity, deindustrialization, and globalization. Timequake (1997), the author's last completed novel, is part science fiction yarn (starring perennial protagonist Kilgore Trout), part diary of the mid-1990s (starring the author himself). The result is a perfect fusion of Vonnegut's two signature genres, the satirical fantasy and the personal essay, and a literary magician's fond farewell to his readers and his craft."--jacket. |
| Subject |
Vonnegut, Kurt -- Literary collections.
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Vonnegut, Kurt. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
Autobiography -- Authorship -- Fiction.
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Autobiography -- Authorship. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Artists -- Fiction.
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Artists. |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
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Vietnam War (1961-1975) |
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Prisoners -- Fiction.
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Prisoners. |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Offit, Sidney, editor.
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Container of (work): Vonnegut, Kurt.
Bluebeard.
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Container of (work): Vonnegut, Kurt.
Hocus pocus.
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Container of (work): Vonnegut, Kurt.
Timequake.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 2016
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| ISBN |
1598534645 (hardcover) |
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9781598534641 (hardcover) |
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