Unstuck in Time A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels

Name: Unstuck in Time A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels
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ISBN: 9781609804305

ISBN-10: 1609804309

ISBN-13: 9781609804305

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gregory D. Sumner

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InUnstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut's best-known works--his fourteen novels starting withPlayer Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book,A Man Without a Country(2005)--to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms.Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and "winners" over "losers." Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonnegut's…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 12/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Storyteller: Kurt Vonnegut and the American Dream


Prologue: Impossible Dreams: A Writer s Education, 1922-1952



Player Piano



The Sirens of Titan



Mother Night



Cat's Cradle



God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls Before Swine



Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death



Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday!



Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!



Jailbird



Deadeye Dick



Galapagos: A Second Noah's Ark



Bluebeard



Hocus Pocus



Timequake


Epilogue: A Man without a Country, a "Planetary Citizen"


Notes


Kurt Vonnegut's Novels


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author