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Author: Kurt Vonnegut ,
Dan Wakefield
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Dial Press Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 20.20cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780385343763
ISBN 10: 0385343760
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 14 January 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This miraculous volume of selected letters provides a moving and revelatory portrait of the famed author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. . . . Fans will find the collection as spellbinding as Vonnegut's best novels, and casual readers will discover letters as splendid in their own way as those of Keats. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Splendidly assembled . . . familiar, funny, cranky . . . chronicling [Vonnegut's] life in real time. --Kurt Andersen, The New York Times Book Review [This collection is] by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and mundane. . . . Vonnegut himself is a near-perfect example of the same flawed, wonderful humanity that he loved and despaired over his entire life. -- NPR Congenial, whimsical and often insightful missives . . . one of [Vonnegut's] very best. -- Newsday Letters ' greatest gift is the gift of all such anthologies: It humanizes an icon. . . . The fallibility and kindness of the real person shine through clearer in his more personal writing, separating the author from the oeuvre in a way that makes both richer. --The A.V. Club There are authors we admire or envy, but there are just a few we really, really love, and Vonnegut is one of them. -- The Washington Post Smart, funny, and very compassionate. Reading this is a must for fans of the author. -- The Christian Science Monitor Old correspondence from even famous writers can be a bore, but not Vonnegut's. He was always at his best when adopting an intimate, down-to-earth tone, and the same animating force that made him a brilliant storyteller is evident again and again in these letters. . . . This is a frank and funny book, offering rich insights into Vonnegut's character and career. -- The Dallas Morning News This miraculous volume of selected letters provides a moving and revelatory portrait of the famed author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. . . . Fans will find the collection as spellbinding as Vonnegut's best novels, and casual readers will discover letters as splendid in their own way as those of Keats. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A literary treasure . . . this collection of letters--many of which have never been published--rightly can be viewed as the autobiography Vonnegut never wrote. -- Thea
Author Information
Dan Wakefield first befriended Kurt Vonnegut in 1963. Like Vonnegut, he was born and raised in Indianapolis. He is a novelist and screenwriter whose books include the bestselling Going All the Way and the memoir New York in the Fifties.
