Breakfast of Champions Vintage books 9780099577935 We are healthy only to the

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 versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and 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 through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 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 Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count

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ISBN: 9780099577935
Язык: Английский
Объем: 304
Автор: Воннегут К.,Воннегут К.
Формат: 120x205,Мягкий
Издательство: VintВозрастное ограничение books
Год: 2006
Возрастное ограничение: 18
Количество страниц: 304
Переплет: Мягкий
Count: 1
Авторы: Воннегут К.
Год публикации: 2006
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