Kurt Vonnegut: Letters - Couverture rigide

Vonnegut, Kurt

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0099582937 ISBN 13 : 9780099582939

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2013

Synopsis

This collection includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut’s years as a struggling writer; a letter to the CEO of Eagle Shirtmakers with a crackpot scheme to manufacture “atomic” bow ties; angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; letters to his children including advice like ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life’; fantastically wise letters to writers such as Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass, and Bernard Malamud; and his characteristically modest response to being called a ‘great literary figure’: ‘I am an American fad―of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.’

Like Vonnegut’s books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099582937
• ISBN 13: 9780099582939
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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