Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0307567230
- ISBN-13
- 9780307567239
- Series
- Breakfast of Champions
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-23
- Publisher
- Dial Press
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut
Description
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly
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