| Breakfast of Champions Contributor(s): Vonnegut, Kurt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385334206 ISBN-13: 9780385334204 Publisher: Dial Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 930 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Marvelous . . . Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable."--The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. "Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut."--Publishers Weekly |