Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday! - Kurt Vonnegut
KORTE INHOUD
0586040110.
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health vs sickness, humanity vs inhumanity - both sets of ideas bounce thru this challenging, funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt thru (sick? inhumane?) America c. 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vo...
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health vs sickness, humanity vs inhumanity - both sets of ideas bounce thru this challenging, funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt thru (sick? inhumane?) America c. 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vo...
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1978 Uitgever: London etc. : Granada Publishing 270 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0586040110 ISBN-13: 9780586040119Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1974, pocket, shelf/user wear, age tanned, foxed, fairly good copy [Auteur: Vonnegut, Kurt jr.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Panther] [Jaar: 1974] [Titel: Breakfast of Champions]
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Pocket book, reprinted, small 8vo.; Small name on endpaper. [Auteur: Vonnegut, Kurt] [Pagina's: 270] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London etc. : Granada Publishing] [Jaar: 1978] [Titel: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday!]
