Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
“For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations .
. . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today
“[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”–Los
Angeles Times
“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s]
crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A
Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a
long chat with an old friend.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Filled with [Vonnegut’s] usual contradictory mix of joy and
sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity.”–Chicago Tribune
“Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut]
captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning
calligraphic simplicity.”–The Australian
“Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never
write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we
discover his family’s legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable
humanism.”–Studs Terkel
“This book is nothing if not a big shot in the arm of concentrated
hope.”—The Sycamore Review
“No other American humorist see-saws from gravity to gobbledygook
this effectively, in part because for Vonnegut the two are always
connected. Life for him is deadly serious, bu the best way to deal
with fear is to laugh in its face.”—The Jerusalem Post
Nothing on this audio package reveals it, but this book is a collection of essays that Vonnegut published over the past five years, mostly in the antiestablishment magazine In These Times. It's an unstructured mix of discursive reminiscences, thoughts about writing, and diatribes about the insanities of the modern world-particularly those of the Bush administration. It's a thin book, but as it may be the closest thing to autobiography that the author will ever publish, his many devoted listeners will welcome it. The print edition with Vonnegut's handwritten aphorisms and illustrations might suffice for most libraries; however, narrator Norman Dietz adds a nearly perfect sardonic tone that makes this audio program worth listening to for its own sake. Recommended for most collections.-R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations .
. . this is what he is like in person."-USA Today
"[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a
memoir."-Los Angeles Times
"Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut's]
crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A
Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a
long chat with an old friend."-The New York Times Book Review
"Filled with [Vonnegut's] usual contradictory mix of joy and
sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity."-Chicago
Tribune
"Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut]
captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning
calligraphic simplicity."-The Australian
"Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never
write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we
discover his family's legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable
humanism."-Studs Terkel
"This book is nothing if not a big shot in the arm of concentrated
hope."-The Sycamore Review
"No other American humorist see-saws from gravity to gobbledygook
this effectively, in part because for Vonnegut the two are always
connected. Life for him is deadly serious, bu the best way to deal
with fear is to laugh in its face."-The Jerusalem
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