Timequake - Couverture souple

Vonnegut, Kurt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0425164349 ISBN 13 : 9780425164341

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Vonnegut Kurt

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Praise for Timequake

“[A] quirky mix of fiction and biography...This is the indispensable Vonnegut.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Wry and trenchant...highly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review

“His funniest book since Breakfast of Champions...There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.”—Newsweek

“Timequake is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut...What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug...You've got to love him.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Humorous, sardonic...Timequake makes for irresistible reading that's loaded with more important truths than it lets on...Moralizing has never been funnier.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Part autobiography, part meditation, part satire...Vonnegut is at his best.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution

Quatrième de couverture

'A wise, winning and uttely charming concoction of fiction, commentary and autobiography' Literary Review

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.

See also: Breakfast of Champions

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0425164349
• ISBN 13: 9780425164341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272