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Armageddon in Retrospect

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099524083

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 207g

  • RRP: £9.99

Armageddon in Retrospect

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral non-fiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden - to a painfully funny short story about three soldiers and their fantasies of the perfect meal.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099524083

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 207g

  • RRP: £9.99

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  • "Reads like a madcap Montaigne on acid"

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About the Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and according to Harper's Magazine, established him as 'a true artist' with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, 'one of the best living American writers'. Vonnegut died in April 2007.

Kurt Vonnegut

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