Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 07/05/2009
ISBN: 9780099524083
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 181g
RRP: £9.99
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
Published: 07/05/2009
ISBN: 9780099524083
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 181g
RRP: £9.99
Reads like a madcap Montaigne on acid
The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time
The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx
Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility
(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar