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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/05/2009
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ISBN: 9780099524083
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
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Weight: 207g
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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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/05/2009
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ISBN: 9780099524083
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
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Weight: 207g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Reads like a madcap Montaigne on acid"
Metro
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"The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time"
Daily Mail
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"The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx"
The Times
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"Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility"
Lionel Shriver, Financial Times
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"(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar"
Independent
