Understanding Kurt Vonnegut
- ISBN-10
- 1570038864
- ISBN-13
- 9781570038860
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- William Rodney Allen
Description
Understanding Kurt Vonnegut is a critical analysis of Vonnegut's fiction as a point of entrance for students and general readers alike. In close readings of Vonnegut's novels, William Rodney Allen examines the distinctive stylistic, thematic, and formally innovative elements that earned Vonnegut (1922-2007) a mass following, especially among young readers, as well as critical respect among scholars.
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