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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this is a window not only into Vonnegut's mind but also into his heart.
A book filled with madness and truth and absurdity and self-revelation . . . Vonnegut is] a great cosmic comedian and rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguised as a pessimist.--St. Louis Post-Dispatch Includes the following essays, speeches, and works: Science FictionBrief Encounters on the Inland Waterway
Hello, Star Vega
Teaching the Unteachable
Yes, We Have No Nirvanas
Fortitude
'There's a Maniac Loose Out There'
Excelsior We're Going to the Moon Excelsior
Address to the American Physical Society
Good Missiles, Good Manners, Good Night
Why They Read Hesse
Oversexed in Indianapolis
The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky
Biafra: A People Betrayed
Address to Graduating Class at Bennington College, 1970
Torture and Blubber
Address to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1971
Reflections on my Own Death
In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself
Thinking Unthinkable, Speaking Unspeakable
Address at Rededication of Wheaton College Library, 1973
Invite Rita Rait to America
Address to P.E.N. Conference in Stockholm, 1973
A Political Disease
Playboy Interview
Born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, KURT VONNEGUT was one of the few grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by the New York Times the counterculture's novelist, his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the US in the second half of the twentieth century. Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication of Cat's Cradle in 1963. Several modern classics, including Slaughterhouse-Five, soon followed. And he wrote and published dozens of short stories. Given who and what I am, he once said, it has been presumptuous of me to write so well. Kurt Vonnegut died in New York in 2007. A longtime friend of Kurt Vonnegut's, DAN WAKEFIELD edited and introduced Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, and is the author of the memoirs New York in the Fifties and Returning: A Spiritual Journey, and the novel, Going All the Way, which was made into a movie starring Ben Affleck. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
JEROME KLINKOWITZ, a scholar of mid-century American literature in general and Kurt Vonnegut in particular, is a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is co-editor of The Vonnegut Statement and author of several books including The American 1960s. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. DAVE EGGERS is the founder of McSweeney's and is the author of many books, including Heroes of the Frontier, The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What.
JEROME KLINKOWITZ, a scholar of mid-century American literature in general and Kurt Vonnegut in particular, is a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is co-editor of The Vonnegut Statement and author of several books including The American 1960s. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. DAVE EGGERS is the founder of McSweeney's and is the author of many books, including Heroes of the Frontier, The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385333818 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385333811 |
| Title | Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons |
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1999-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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