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Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

RELEASED 01/07/2021

In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother’s midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage. Resonating with his singular voice, this is a self-portrait in writing that showcases why Kurt Vonnegut is as genius an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist.

Reviews

  • After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame

    Spectator

  • One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction

    Sunday Times

  • A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny

    Financial Times

  • A brilliant wacky ideas-monger

    Guardian

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About the Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) was born in Indianapolis, USA. During the Second World War he was a prisoner in Germany and present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience he recounted in his famous novel Slaughterhouse Five (1969). His first novel, Piano Player, was published in 1951. This was followed by a considerable outlay of work, including the novels The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Hocus Pocus. He is widely considered to be one of the most important American writers of his generation.

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