Novels 1987-1997 / Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor.

Novels. Selections

9781598534641 (hardcover)
1598534645 (hardcover)

New York : The Library of America, [2016]

©2016

English

754 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

PS3572.O5 A6 2016b

813/.54 [B]

... "The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut brings his indelible voice to a range of still-burning issues--free speech, racism, environmental calamity, deindustrialization, and globalization. Timequake (1997), the author's last completed novel, is part science fiction yarn (starring perennial protagonist Kilgore Trout), part diary of the mid-1990s (starring the author himself). The result is a perfect fusion of Vonnegut's two signature genres, the satirical fantasy and the personal essay, and a literary magician's fond farewell to his readers and his craft."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

Library of America ; 273.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Bluebeard.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Hocus pocus.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Timequake.

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